ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,380, issued on June 17, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Prevention of unauthorized migration of wireless access points across service providers" was invented by Navneeth N. Kannan (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server device includes a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the server device to obtain unique data associated with a network device, store, into the memory, at least one of a first key and a first seed, the first key being associated with the network device and being based on the unique data, the first seed being associated with th...