ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,076, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Creating new access point connections prior to roam point in wireless network" was invented by Brian Donald Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, system, and/or computer readable medium for roaming on a Wi-Fi network having a plurality of access points including: determining that a new AP actor provides a station (STA) actor enhanced characteristics as compared to an existing AP actor, wherein the enhanced characteristics include one or more of a stronger connection, lower congestion, an...