ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,177, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Seamless regulatory access point updates ensuring continual client connectivity" was invented by Shubham Saloni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Qiang Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nethra Muniyappa (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for ensuring client device connectivity in a deployment pursuant to regulatory updates impacting channel usage or availability. An access point (AP) or AP controller may obtain a client-supported channel list, and detect existence of a regulatory update impacting chan...