US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Feb. 17 for "Selective fine timing measurement of access points" (Chinese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,163, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Selective fine timing measurement of access points" was invented by Junpeng Wu (Beijing), Zhonglin Feng (Beijing), Xiumeng Wang (Beijing), Meng Zhao (Beijing), Yiting Zheng (Beijing), Sachin Ganu (Beijing) and Denis Houle (St. Laurent, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of performing selective Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) are described. For an FTM scan cycle, a first AP (i.e., an initiator) may determine scanning parameter values of a plurality of second APs (i.e., potential responders) based on previously performed FTM sc...