ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,345, issued on July 7, was assigned to Thomson Licensing (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

"System and method to operate a radio on several frequency bands" was invented by Ian G. Wheelock (Cork, Ireland), Charles Peter Cheevers (Alpharetta, Ga.) and James R. Flesch (Doraville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device comprises a memory, a radio system, a control line, and a processor. The radio system can be controllably configured to operate in a first channel state or a second channel state. The first channel state enables transmission of first client device reception data on a first channel and reception of first client device ...