ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,978, issued on May 20, was assigned to RUCKUS IP HOLDINGS LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Tenant access protection via an intermediary computer system" was invented by Liangyi Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Yao Wen Chang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, a computer system may receive, from an electronic device, an access request to access a shared network in a multi-tenant system, where the electronic device associated with a tenant in the multi-tenant system. Then, the computer system may identify a second computer system, which may be associated with an MSP of the shared network and that provides authentication ...