ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,593, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Nile Global Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for cloud based wireless channel scanning" was invented by Guru Gopalakrishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Vijay Kumar Pamidipati (Bengaluru, India), Sathish Damodaran (San Jose, Calif.), Vikas Patel (Bengaluru, India) and Jeffin Mammen (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for wireless channel scanning involves at a cloud server, building a set of channels for off-channel scanning to be performed by a selected group of wireless access points (APs), at the ...