ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,870, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"WiFi scaning enhancement" was invented by Xuguang Jia (Beijing), Qiang Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Xiaoyang Fu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for scanning enhancement is provided. The method comprises receiving a channel scan request, including a scan channel number, a bandwidth, and a total scan time. The method further comprises determining a number of a plurality of scans based on the total scan time and an individual scan time for an AP. The method further comprises determining a plurality of offset values corr...