ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,747, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Automatic location of access points in a network" was invented by Sachin Ganu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Charles Lukaszewski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gaurav Patwardhan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eldad Perahia (Park City, Utah), Vikram Raghu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Stuart Walker Strickland (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein provide automatic location of access points by a computing device. Examples may include receiving, by the computing device from each AP in a subset of a plurality of APs, a Global Na...