ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,626, issued on April 22, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"WiFi location enhancement" was invented by Vladimir Vladimirovich Kozin (Livermore, Calif.), Kevin Friday (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Jie C Jiang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described by which a network management system (NMS) is configured determine a specific wireless channel assigned to a first AP device. The NMS is further configured to determine one or more neighboring AP devices that are within a certain proximity of the first AP device and generate a packetized scan command for each of the one or more neighboring...