ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,541, issued on March 3, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple access point (AP) association" was invented by Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego), Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), Abdel Karim Ajami (Lakeside, Calif.), Yanjun Sun (San Diego) and Gaurang Naik (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for multiple access point (AP) association with a single station (STA) to provide a seamless transition (e.g., little to no service interruption during an active link transfer). Some aspects more specifical...