ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,255, issued on March 18, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Roaming candidate selection with overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection" was invented by Abu Dahir Mohamed Kasim (Coimbatore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless roaming. Some implementations more specifically relate to roaming candidate selection based on overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection. In some aspects, a wireless station (STA) may identify one or more OBSSs based on wireless communications detected during an OBSS detection period and may roam to a new access point (AP) bas...