US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 21 for "Multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) beacon broadcast" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,652, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) beacon broadcast" was invented by Gyanranjan Hazarika (Milpitas, Calif.), Viren Umrigar (Dublin, Calif.), Vinod Nagarajan (Saratoga, Calif.), Dinesh Upadhyay (San Jose, Calif.) and Krishnakumar Muthusamy (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for establishing and maintaining connectivity between access points (APs) that provide multiple BSSID sets and wireless stations (STAs) that do not support enhanced multiple BSSID advertisement (EMA). In some implementat...