US Patent Issued to Fortinet on July 29 for "Proactive mitigation of Wi-Fi 6E rogue clients connecting to Wi-Fi 6E access points in wireless networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,927, issued on July 29, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Proactive mitigation of Wi-Fi 6E rogue clients connecting to Wi-Fi 6E access points in wireless networks" was invented by Ruchir Mishra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Shrikant Gambheer Patil (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A list is received from the Wi-Fi controller of rogue Wi-Fi 6E access points identified by BSSID within a vicinity of the Wi-Fi 6E access points based on RSSI measurements sent to the Wi-Fi controller. A rogue Wi-Fi 6E access point of the Wi-Fi controller list from the periodic beacon scanning. In response, prior to connection of...