ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,643, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Network address policy information received in a pre-associated state" was invented by Stephen McCann (Southampton, Great Britain), Michael Peter Montemurro (Toronto) and James Randolph Winter Lepp (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, receive, from an access point (AP), information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to...