ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,311, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"UHR multi-link direct link operation in wireless communications" was invented by Yongho Seok (San Jose, Calif.) and James Chih-Shi Yee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques and schemes pertaining to ultra-high reliability (UHR) multi-link direct link operation in wireless communications are described. A first non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD) establishes multiple links as multi-link direct links with a second non-AP MLD. The first non-AP MLD also maintains a multi-link association with an AP MLD. The first non-...