ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,089, issued on March 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for enabling multi-link WLANs" was invented by Xiaofei Wang (North Caldwell, N.J.), Hanqing Lou (Syosset, N.Y.), Li-Hsiang Sun (San Diego) and Joseph S. Levy (Merrick, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As disclosed herein, there may be systems, methods, and devices for enabling multi-link wireless local area networks (WLAN). One or more non-AP station (STA) multi-link devices (MLDs) and one or more Access Point (AP) MLD may establish a multi-link association between each other, thereby establishing a multi-link connection that e...