US Patent Issued to PLUME DESIGN on June 30 for "Device type and location resolution in a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,092, issued on June 30, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Device type and location resolution in a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network" was invented by Richard Chang (Los Altos, Calif.), Trevor Condon (Kelowna, Canada), Sean Li (Campbell, Calif.), Cuong Vu (Newark, Calif.) and Jeff Chao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: transmitting, by an access point, a message to a wireless device and receiving a response to the message, the response including a list of access points nearby the wireless device; determining, by ...