ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,718, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for cloud-based Wi-Fi" was invented by Nipun Agarwal (Fremont, Calif.), William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.), Yoseph Malkin (San Jose, Calif.), Na Hyun Ha (Cupertino, Calif.), Yusuke Sakamoto (San Jose, Calif.), Sai Venkatraman (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sandeep Eyyuni (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rohit Thadani (San Carlos, Calif.) and Adam Hotchkiss (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network havi...