ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,555, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Multi AP microbranch deployment configuration based on optimized packet forwarding" was invented by Nilay Shroff (Karnataka, India), Piyush Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mohan Ram Bhadravati Ramakrishna Bhat (Karnataka, India), Narayanasami Vijayaraghavan (Karnataka, India) and Shreekanthayya Hiremath (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for authenticating client devices in microbranch deployment. In response to a client device connecting to a LAN AP, a first client-entry associated with ...