ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,342, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Intra-band enhanced multilink single-radio communication" was invented by Abhijit Bhattacharya (Bangalore, India), Arul Durai Murugan Palanivelu (Bangalore, India), Suresh Chandrasekaran (Kanchipuram, India) and Vinod Belur Ramachandra (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for intra-band enhanced multilink single-radio (eMLSR) communication. Some aspects more specifically relate to independently contending, using a single radio, for access on first and second links associated with first and ...