ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,139, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Multi-access point coordination group with multi-link device awareness" was invented by Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-AP Coordination (MAPC) group with Multi-Link Device (MLD) awareness may be provided. Link information of one or more stations associated with each Access Point (AP) of a plurality of APs of a MAPC group may be received. The link information may include a Multi-Link Device (MLD) capabi...