ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,355, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Maintaining multiple wireless associations via an over-the-wire relay" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Alessandro Erta (Licciana Nardi, Italy), Salvatore Valenza (Pomy, Switzerland), Sudhir Kumar Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Vincent Cuissard (Eteaux, France) and Kasi Nalamalapu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device sends data traffic to a gateway of a backhaul mesh network via a first wireless acces...