ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,987, issued on July 1, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Optimization of distributed Wi-Fi networks" was invented by Balaji Rengarajan (Campbell, Calif.), William J. McFarland (Portola Vally, Calif.), Qinghai Gao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andrea Goldsmith (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vikram Chandrasekhar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ritesh K. Madan (Berkley, Calif.) and Santhosh Krishna (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network optimization include receiving inputs related to signal strength and interference during operation of the Wi-Fi network; performing an optimization to determine o...