ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,261, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Automated establishing of a hidden transmitted basic service set" was invented by Peter G. Khoury (San Francisco) and Kaushik Guha (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device (such as an access point) is described. During operation, the electronic device may create a hidden transmitted BSS. For example, the hidden transmitted BSS may be hidden, e.g., from an operator of a network that includes the electronic device and/or from one or more second electronic devices. Moreover, the electronic device may transmit a multi-BSS beacon...