ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,837, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Negotiating multi-link high reliability connection" was invented by Jean-Francois Gagnon (St. Laurent, Canada) and Martin Jolicoeur (St. Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing a duplication mode of operation that allows for the deliberate duplication of data to be sent between peer multi-link devices (MLDs), thereby overriding a conventional multi-link operation feature. Management frames can be exchanged between the peer MLDs that include information elements comprising one or ...