ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,047, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SonicWALL Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Streamlined creation and expansion of a wireless mesh network" 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: "Methods, systems, computer readable storage medium and apparatus, as described herein, registers and configures mesh node devices to operate in a wireless mesh network as part of a process that may be referred to as an onboarding process. Such an onboarding process may store registration information and configuration information in a database at a computer in the cloud or that is acces...