ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,513, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAXLINEAR INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Multi-link range extension" was invented by Abhishek Kumar Agrawal (Fremont, Calif.), Imran Latif (Fremont, Calif.), Sigurd Schelstraete (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Hossein Dehghan (Diablo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems may include processes by which the reliability and robustness of a wireless network may be improved. In some implementations, a method may include selecting at least two resource units to be used for communications to a single client device; and transmitting data in duplicate via each of the at least two resource units...