ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,977, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for learning QoS performance inter- dependence of communication link" was invented by Qianrui Li (Rennes, France), Herve Bonneville (Rennes, France), Nicolas Gresset (Rennes, France) and Akl Charaf (Rennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for learning QoS performance inter-dependence of a plurality of communication links in a network managed by a central node, wherein the plurality of wireless links interface with a common application applying a joint figure of merit, comprising: selecting at least two links among the plurality of commun...