ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,821, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HCL America Inc..

"Awareness layers for managing access points in centralized wireless networks" was invented by Paolo Spallaccini (Vimodrone, Italy), Yossi Altevet (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel) and Irshad Pookunju (Minato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to method and system for managing a plurality of access points in a centralized wireless network. The method includes installing one or more user space applications in each of the plurality of access points; receiving in real-time a plurality of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) from each of the plurality of access po...