ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,839, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Secured credential sharing over Wi-Fi protected setup" was invented by Vinayak Kamath (Shakthinagar, India), Dhruvaraja Kunjar (Munnekolala, India) and Pramod Prakash Kanni (Gazipur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for providing temporary access point (AP) functionality to an intermediary device to provide wireless network credentials to a wireless device (STA) to be connected to a wireless network including an AP is described. The intermediary device may mimic the AP to provide wireless network credentials to...