US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 19 for "Double blind private wireless local area networking" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,696, issued on May 19, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Double blind private wireless local area networking" was invented by Bart A. Brinckman (Nevele, Belgium) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for double blind private Wi-Fi wireless networking using an authentication method (e.g., OpenRoaming) that allows the network to authenticate a user identity against an IDP (e.g. Apple ID), without disclosing any identifiable information about that user to the network, or any information about that user's location or behavior to the identity provider, by leveragin...