ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,516, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Assisted multi-link beacon and groupcast reception in a wireless network" was invented by Yonggang Fang (San Jose, Calif.), 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: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, apparatus and methods that provide transmission information of different APs to a wireless device during link discovery. The transmission information is used to determine AP coverage/link reachability information for performing channel association, channel switching, multi-AP co...