ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,330, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Selection of transmitted virtual access point for multiple basic service set identifier groups" was invented by Zhijun Ren (Beijing), Chunfeng Wang (Beijing), Jinzhao Ren (Beijing) and Yue Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided an approach for reducing unnecessary network down. A method comprises determining a plurality of virtual access points (VAPs) of the AP in a radio frequency (RF) band. Then, the plurality of VAPs are divided into a plurality of VAP zones based ...