ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,258, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Access-point correlation for fast client transitions" was invented by Wei-Sheng Hsu (San Jose, Calif.), Shailesh Gupta (Bangalore, India), Mayank Sourabh (Bengaluru, India), Kesheva Murthy Kuradahalli Siddanayaka (Bengaluru, India), Weichih Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuan-Hsun Peng (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, an access point may receive, from an electronic device, a roaming request, where the electronic device is currently associated with a second access point. In response, the access point may broadcast ...