ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,567, issued on July 15, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Capturing multiuser data packets by grouping access points on a wireless network" was invented by Vijayakumar V (Ulsoor, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capture group of access points formed from the plurality of access points dedicate at least one radio from each of the access points for capturing data packets. Captured data packets are received by wireless transmission from each of access point of the capture group of access points. The access points of the capture group are preferably geographically dispersed to increase capture range. The captured ...