ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,220, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Distributed access point location determination in enterprise wireless networks" was invented by Omar El Ferkouss (St Laurent, Canada), Sachin Ganu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vikram Raghu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for determining a physical location of access points in a wireless network that include a plurality of access points, the plurality of access points in the wireless network including anchor access points with respective known locations and unanchored access points without respective...