ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,975, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Apparatuses, methods, and system for replacing physical network connection with Wi-Fi in 2-box networking setups" was invented by Ian G. Wheelock (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optimizing traffic routing operations in a two-box WLAN setup including a gateway device and a WAN adaptor device. The WAN adaptor device receives initial packets of a traffic flow from a client device, and sends the initial packets to the gateway device for slowpath (SP) processing. The gateway device creates fastpath (FP) processing rules for the traffic flow, inclu...