US Patent Issued to SONICWALL on May 19 for "Securing transmission paths in a mesh network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,695, issued on May 19, was assigned to SONICWALL INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Securing transmission paths in a mesh network" was invented by Zhuangzhi Duo (Fremont, Calif.) and Atul Dhablania (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to securely setting up mesh networks in a secure manner that does not require a physical network cable being attached to a wireless device and that do not require transmitting unencrypted information wirelessly when a mesh network is setup. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may use different communication interfaces and different types of chann...