ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,539, issued on March 3, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for dealing with resource allocation and/or link addition of access point multi-link device" was invented by Chien-Fang Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and James Chih-Shi Yee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management method employed by an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) includes: during association between the AP MLD and a non-AP MLD, obtaining capability indications signaled from the non-AP MLD, wherein the capability indications comprise at least a link addition capability indication of the non-AP MLD; and pe...