ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,873, issued on July 15, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Enhanced multi-link operation switching mechanisms" was invented by Kai Ying Lu (San Jose, Calif.), James Chih-Shi Yee (San Jose, Calif.), Yongho Seok (San Jose, Calif.) and Chao-Chun Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an improved switching mechanism for multi-link devices that can perform frame exchanges using multiple spatial streams and automatically switch back to a listening mode on enabled links deterministically for improved throughput and reduced latency. Embodiments of the present...