US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Jan. 13 for "Certificate-based addition of nodes to a wireless mesh network" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,853, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Certificate-based addition of nodes to a wireless mesh network" was invented by Ta Chien Lin (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node being added to a wireless mesh network ("network") identifies an available wireless network(s) for which WPA-Enterprise is deployed that is advertised by a "gateway node," such as the network's main node. The new and main node have installed digital certificates that were issued by the mesh service provider. The node attempts to connect to the wireless network(s) using 802.1X authentication with its ce...