ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,187, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Steering to optimize performance in mesh networks" was invented by Jay Strater (San Diego), Diwya Kandagath Mohanan (Karnataka, India), Chethan Alur Gurumallappa (Karnataka, India), Paul Baker (San Diego) and Gregory Nakanishi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering controller of an access point device can provide an optimized network environment or performance by steering a target client device to a basic service set (BSS) of a network device that is different from the current BSS of the target client device based on one or more non-assoc...