ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,416, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for target wake time in multi-link operation" was invented by Rubayet Shafin (Allen, Texas), Boon Loong Ng (Plano, Texas), Peshal Nayak (Plano, Texas) and Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedule may be established on a first link between an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) and a non-AP MLD and the first link may be impending to be unavailable. The AP MLD may announce, by including a Broadcast TWT Link Replacement element in a beacon fr...