ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,438, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cloud-based control of a Wi-Fi network" was invented by Aman Singla (Saratoga, Calif.), Paul White (Burlingame, Calif.), Adam Hotchkiss (Burlingame, Calif.), Balaji Rengarajan (Campbell, Calif.), William McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.), Sameer Vaidya (Saratoga, Calif.), Evan Jeng (Los Altos, Calif.) and Murugesan Guruswamy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include obtaining measurements from a Wi-Fi network that includes i) a plurality of access points interconnected to one another and at least one connected to a gate...