ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,541, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Service set identifier (SSID) for wireless communications using multiple link aggregation" was invented by Sai Yiu Duncan Ho (San Diego), Abhishek Pramod Patil (San Diego), George Cherian (San Diego), Alfred Asterjadhi (San Diego) and Yanjun Sun (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless communications. In one aspect, an apparatus may obtain, for a first access point (AP), a first service set identifier (SSID) associated with single-link communications and obtain, for a second AP, a second SSID asso...