US Patent Issued to NETGEAR on April 22 for "Wi-Fi deployment over large areas using backhaul links" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,530, issued on April 22, was assigned to NETGEAR INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wi-Fi deployment over large areas using backhaul links" was invented by Sreekar Adapa (Richmond, Calif.), Bryan Christopher Herrera (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and systems for deploying wireless connectivity across a geographical area are disclosed. A bollard for deploying the wireless connectivity includes a modem and a router to receive an Internet connection from an ISP uplink. A PoE switch receives the Internet connection from the router. A first set of wireless backhaul bri...