US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 29 for "Systems, methods, and devices for association and authentication for multi access point coordination" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,913, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for association and authentication for multi access point coordination" was invented by Sharan Naribole (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivas Kandala (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Wook Bong Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Ashok Ranganath (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for associating and authenticating a station (STA) with a coordinated access point (AP) group may include generating a pairwise master key (PMK) between the STA and a coordinator of the coordinated AP group, and maintaining an association and authent...