US Patent Issued to Arista Networks on May 27 for "Wireless intrusion prevention using channel switch announcement" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,083, issued on May 27, was assigned to Arista Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Wireless intrusion prevention using channel switch announcement" was invented by Anubhav Gupta (Navi Mumbai, India), Pratik Bathe (Pune, India) and Jatin Parekh (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an access point in a wireless network is provided. The method can include detecting that a client in the wireless network is connecting to, connected to, or communicating with an unauthorized access point. The method can further include using the access point to send a spoofed management frame impersonating the unauthorized ac...