ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,923, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Accelerated network reconnect using previous connection parameters" was invented by Yaniv Tzoreff (Jerusalem), Gilboa Shveki (Shoham, Israel), Avi Baum (Giva'at Shmuel, Israel) and Barak Cherches (Ramat Hakovesh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Wi-Fi device includes a controller coupled to a writeable memory implementing a MAC and PHY layer and to a transceiver. Connection data stored in the writeable memory includes Wi-Fi connection parameters including less than=1 router MAC level information or a most recently utilized (MRU) channel used, and IP ad...