ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,980, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC (Horsham, Pa.).
"Practical easyconnect onboarding of extenders" was invented by Jay Strater (San Diego), Kurt A. Lumbatis (Dacula, Ga.) and Gregory N. Nakanishi (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device is provided for use with a user, a network extender device and a gateway device. The client device includes: a memory; a graphic user interface configured to provide an instruction to the user to place the client device within a predetermined distance from the network extender device; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory t...