ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,179, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Access point (AP) multi-link device discovery method and related apparatus" was invented by Ming Gan (Shenzhen, China), Guogang Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yiqing Li (Shenzhen, China), Yifan Zhou (Dongguan, China), Mengshi Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Dandan Liang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide access point (AP) multi-link device discovery methods and related apparatuses and computer-readable storage media, which can be applied, for example, to a wireless local area network (WLAN) supporting 802.1...