ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,115, issued on April 15, was assigned to SONICWALL INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Instant secure wireless network setup" was invented by Zhuangzhi Duo (Fremont, Calif.) and Atul Dhablania (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to securely setting up mesh networks in a manner that does not require a physical network cable being attached to a wireless mesh device and that does not require transmitting unencrypted information wirelessly when a mesh network is setup. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may allow a user to choose which mesh nodes can join a network and that user ...