ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,216, issued on March 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator public wireless wide area access network and an enterprise private wireless wide area access network" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Oliver James Bull (Bristol, Great Britain), Louis Gwyn Samuel (Swindon, Great Britain) and Mark Grayson (Berkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to facilitate fast roaming between a mobile network operator-public (MNO-public) wireless w...