ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,441, issued on July 14, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"NSTR link pair channel switching operation scheme" was invented by Kai ying Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and James Chih-Shi Yee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD). In certain configurations, the AP MLD establishes a primary link on a first channel and a non-primary link on a second channel. The AP MLD determines to perform a channel switch operation to switch a first link of the primary lin...