US Patent Issued to Ruckus IP Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Using a passphrase with Wi-Fi protected access 3" (American, Taiwanese, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,174, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Using a passphrase with Wi-Fi protected access 3" was invented by Wei-Sheng Hsu (San Jose, Calif.), Yu-Ting Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Weichih Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Kuan-Hsun Peng (Taipei, Taiwan), Weiguo Xie (Taipei, Taiwan), Christopher Mohammed (Whitby, Canada), Shannon Moyes Clark (Loveland, Colo.), Siddhartha Datta (Broomfield, Colo.) and David Burns (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, an access point may provide a first WLAN and a second WLAN, where the first WLAN uses a WPA2-compatible authentication protocol and the s...