ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,592, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Wi-Fi network supporting multiple virtual networks" was invented by Adam R. Hotchkiss (Richardson, Texas), Bin Hu (Los Altos, Calif.), Matej Zevnik (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Robert Miller (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Wi-Fi network includes one or more Wi-Fi access points each comprising circuitry configured to: provide a plurality of virtual networks including a home network and a work network, each of the plurality of virtual networks being segmented in terms of visibility, connect to a corporate network via one or more secure tun...