US Patent Issued to PLUME DESIGN on Sept. 16 for "Geographic limitation of Wi-Fi access points with cellular connection" (California, Texas, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,849, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PLUME DESIGN INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Geographic limitation of Wi-Fi access points with cellular connection" was invented by Ali Wahid (Atlanta), Arun Kalmanje (Palo Alto, Calif.), Adam R. Hotchkiss (Richardson, Texas) and William J. McFarland (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of geographically limiting a cellular gateway for a Wi-Fi network include obtaining a location of the cellular gateway; determining whether the cellular gateway is authorized to operate at the location on a given cellular network; and performing an action including any of block...