ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,082, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus of handling coordinated association in a wireless network with multiple access points" was invented by Samat Shabdanov (San Jose, Calif.), Chien-Fang Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yuen Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Weisung Tsao (San Jose, Calif.) and Chung-Ta Ku (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for handling coordinated association in a wireless network with multiple access points are described. A method comprises receiving network parameters, determining a plurality of AP-STA associations, and sendi...