ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,277, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"BTM-based load balancing" was invented by Srinivas Katar (Fremont, Calif.), George Cherian (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Gaurang Naik (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego) and Abdel Karim Ajami (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects are provided for BTM-based load balancing. Various aspects relate generally to a method of load balancing where an AP multi-link device (MLD) recommends that a non-AP MLD move to an indicated set of links of the AP MLD and operate on the indicated s...