US Patent Issued to Fortinet on April 21 for "Management of multicast traffic using multi-link operation (MLO) in Wi-Fi 7" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,415, issued on April 21, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Management of multicast traffic using multi-link operation (MLO) in Wi-Fi 7" was invented by Ruchir Mishra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ankur Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Wi-Fi controller receives AP scan reports and station scan reports from a plurality of Wi-Fi 7 access points servicing a plurality of stations for wireless access to the data communication network. Each Wi-Fi 7 access point has multiple links being monitored across 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz and 6 GHz. A global link utilization table of station versus channel utilization is gener...