US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 26 for "Apparatus, method, and medium for mobile access point station" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,071, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Apparatus, method, and medium for mobile access point station" was invented by Guoqing Li (Campbell, Calif.), Dagbegnon H. Bahini (Livermore, Calif.) and Rajneesh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an apparatus and method for a mobile access point (AP) station that operates in an always-on soft AP mode where a station is associated with the mobile AP station, and switch back to operate as a station in an infrastructure mode with an AP. For example, in an always-on soft AP mode, the mobile AP station may implement a ta...