ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,184, issued on June 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"TDLS discovery and setup for multi-link operation" was invented by Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas) and Peshal Nayak (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for facilitating the discovery and setup of multiple peer-to-peer (P2P) direct links for P2P communications between peer multi-link devices (MLDs). A first non-access point (AP) MLD comprises first stations (STAs), each comprising a transceiver configured to form a link with a corresponding AP ...