ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,660, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"4-way handshake optimization" was invented by Ilan Peer (Modiin, Israel), Po-Kai Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Johannes Berg (Detmold, Germany), Ido Ouzieli (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Emily Qi (Gig Harbor, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a 4-way handshake optimization. An initiating entity includes processor circuitry configured to: transmit a first open authentication frame to a responding entity via a wireless interface, wherein the first open authentication frame comprises information that helps the responding entity to identify a P...