ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,370, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for secure management of wireless device associations" was invented by Behnam Dezfouli (San Jose, Calif.), Vikram Kumar Ramanna (San Jose, Calif.) and Rakesh Taori (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices manage associations between wireless devices. Methods include identifying a plurality of wireless devices communicatively coupled to an access point and generating, using one or more processing elements, a plurality of groups of wireless devices based, at least in part, on a plural...