US Patent Issued to Intel on May 5 for "WLAN private control channel" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,820, issued on May 5, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"WLAN private control channel" was invented by Thomas J. Kenney (Portland, Ore.) and Laurent Cariou (Milizac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for wireless local area network (WLAN) private control channel are disclosed. Apparatuses of a non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) are disclosed, where the apparatuses comprise processing circuitry configured to: associate, a first non-AP of the non-AP MLD, with an AP MLD and encode a first packet for transmission, by the first non-AP, to a first AP of the AP ...