ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,710, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Optimizing clusters of Wi-Fi networks" was invented by Mowen Lu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Justin Katz (King of Prussia, Pa.), Manikanden Balakrishnan (San Mateo, Calif.), Sunil Ahuja (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul White (Burlingame, Calif.) and William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for optimizing a cluster of Wi-Fi networks operating within a vicinity of each other are provided. In one implementation, a method includes detecting a cluster of Wi-Fi networks operating independently of each other, where the c...