US Patent Issued to QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS on Feb. 10 for "Using expanded metadata to select among available wireless networks" (Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,265, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS LLC (Fife, Wash.).

"Using expanded metadata to select among available wireless networks" was invented by Charles Robert Gorectke (Lakeland, Fla.), Christopher Michael Garman (Pittsburgh) and Anthony Samuel Jacobs (Olney, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for generating a network announcement message for a first communication device is described. In the message generated by the facility, first data encodes values determined for the first communication device of standard attributes specified by a wireless networking standard. Second data encoded values determined for...