ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,611, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Initiating SoftAp mode provisioning of WiFi device via custom data field" was invented by Hemanth Tenkod (Chandler, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more examples relate to a method, which includes sending, from a provisioner WiFi device to a provisionee WiFi device in an idle mode, a probe request frame including a random data in a custom data field; powering up the provisionee WiFi device in a SoftAp mode at least partially responsive to receiving the probe request frame; sending, from the provisioner WiFi device to the provisionee WiFi...