ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,482, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Reconfiguring link characteristics while maintaining links" was invented by Gaurang Naik (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Yanjun Sun (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego) and Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices, and systems for reconfiguring link characteristics while maintaining links. Some aspects more specifically relate to a first and second wireless communication device establishing a plurality of wir...