US Patent Issued to NETGEAR on Nov. 25 for "Intelligent client steering in mesh networks" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,963, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NETGEAR INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent client steering in mesh networks" was invented by Fernando Lozano (Woodside, Calif.), Yu Te Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Deeksha Kamath (San Jose, Calif.) and Chunyi Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems for client steering in mesh networks are disclosed. A first access point (AP) of a network sends a quality of service (QoS) data packet to a client device. A received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the client device is captured using the QoS data packet. A distance between the AP and client device i...