ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,018, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"WiFi roam with band switch avoidance" was invented by Shehla S Rana (San Jose, Calif.), Rajneesh Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yang Yu (Redwood, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may use a 5 GHz frequency band to support both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The 5 GHz frequency band may be divided into two portions (e.g., high sub-band low sub-band). A Wi-Fi module of the wireless device may perform a roam scan on a first sub-band to determine attempt to find a candidate channel that meets a target criteria. When the candidate channel that meets the ta...