US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Oct. 28 for "Method for wireless roaming using out-of-band communications" (American, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,531, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Method for wireless roaming using out-of-band communications" was invented by Tuomas Valtteri Laine (Vantaa, Finland) and Matthew Richard Pekarske (Grafton, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for reducing a time spent by a wireless device scanning for candidate access points (AP) during roaming. In one embodiment, a method includes, during a roaming mode of a wireless patient monitoring device connected to a wireless network via a first AP of the network, receiving AP information at the wireless patient monitoring...