US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Sept. 15 for "Handshake for smooth roaming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,913, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Handshake for smooth roaming" was invented by Liwen Chu (San Ramon, Calif.), Kiseon Ryu (San Diego), Hongyuan Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Huizhao Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Roaming for a non-access point (non-AP) device with a roaming access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), wherein the roaming AP MLD includes a plurality of AP MLDs in different devices at different locations having one medium access control (MAC) service access point (SAP), including: exchanging management frames between the non-AP device and a current serving AP ML...