ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,578, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Privacy enhanced BSS and discovery mechanisms" was invented by Jarkko L Kneckt (Los Gatos, Calif.), Charles F Dominguez (Redwood City, Calif.), Daniel R Borges (Fremont, Calif.), Debashis Dash (San Jose, Calif.), Elliot S Briggs (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Sidharth R Thakur (San Jose, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and mechanisms for a privacy enhanced basic service set (BSS), including privacy enhancements for both access points and wireless stations as well as privacy enchant...