ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,683, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Control of roaming in a wireless network using a variable mobility threshold" was invented by Mohammad Zohoorian (San Francisco), Ebrahim Safavi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shmuel Shaffer (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network management system (NMS) is configured to control roaming in a wireless network using a variable mobility threshold. For a first wireless device associated with a current location, the NMS obtains at least one performance metric of a first wireless signal received by the first wireless device at t...