ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,684, issued on July 7, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for detecting relocation of a wireless access point" was invented by Seng Gan (Ashburn, Va.), Andrew F. Patka (Holliston, Mass.), Michael D. Hanson (Millington, N.J.) and Sankar Subramanian (Ossining, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management system may analyze signal strengths of signals received, from a plurality of devices, by a first device located in a first location of an enclosed structure. The management system may determine, based on analyzing the signal strengths, that a first subset of devices are loca...