ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,406, issued on May 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Quick recovery indication and retransmission request" was invented by Ahmed Atef Ibrahim Ibrahim (Plano, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas), Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas) and Junsu Choi (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for facilitating, in multi-link devices (MLDs) that are capable of exchanging an Aggregated MAC Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU), simultaneous transmission of the A-MPDU and retransmission of failed MPDUs of the A-MPDU. A non-access point (AP) MLD...