ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,525, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-link operations-based WiFi sensing and ranging" was invented by Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.), Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Laurent A. Pierrugues (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enhanced wireless sensing or ranging are provided. First and second channel state information (CSI) data, for a first and second link of a plurality of links in a multi-link operation (MLO) system, is collected. A set of channel parameters is estimated, based on the second CSI data, u...