ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,318, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NEWRACOM Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Seamless roaming mechanism for wireless networks" was invented by Heejung Yu (Daejeon, South Korea), Joonsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Si-Chan Noh (Seoul, South Korea) and Il-Gu Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a station (STA) to seamlessly roam from a first access point (AP) to a second AP. The method includes transmitting a roaming request frame to the first AP and the second AP in a second channel, receiving a roaming confirmation frame from the second AP in the second channel, transmitting a roaming initiation fram...