ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,061, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Hardware assisted channel switch time enhancement" was invented by Kamal Agarwal Singhal (Bengaluru, India), Bijoy Bhukania (Bengaluru, India), Venkateswara Rao Kanchi (Bengaluru, India), Varaprasad Javvadi (Bengaluru, India), Swetank Ambar (Bengaluru, India) and Srikanth Gummadi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network devices may include shadowed parameters and duplicated algorithms, each of which being used to decrease channel switch time. A network device may use a controller to instruct various systems (MAC laye...