ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,006, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Ireland).
"Wireless network service type" was invented by Stephen McCann (Southampton, Great Britain) and Michael Peter Montemurro (Mississauga, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service type announcement element indicates one or more service types offered by an access point (AP) that supports station a wireless network. The service type announcement element is generated by the AP and included in a beacon frame or in a probe response frame. The beacon frame or the probe response frame is transmitted by the AP and received by a mobile device prior to the mobile de...