US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 17 for "Onboarding wireless devices to private networks" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,731, issued on June 17, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Onboarding wireless devices to private networks" was invented by Rajesh S. Pazhyannur (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device provides a connection request to an access point for a private network. The connection request includes a standardized identifier that corresponds to an unprovisioned wireless device. The connection response from the access point indicates that the wireless device is provided access to the private network only for communications with a provisioning server. The wireless device provides a provisioning req...