US Patent Issued to Allied Telesis Holdings on June 30 for "Systems and methods for an instant virtual access point" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,992, issued on June 30, was assigned to Allied Telesis Holdings K.K. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for an instant virtual access point" was invented by Shuval Polacheck (Shefayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing instant secured network access for station devices. Multiple sets of SSIDs and passphrases construct different instant virtual access points (iVAPs) by utilizing a hidden virtual access point (VAP); where station devices can connect to the hidden VAP using different iVAP credentials, reducing the security risk as the unique access credentials allow the station devices to access the hidd...