ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,587, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Spirent Communications Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Packet capture based Wi-Fi performance analysis" was invented by Michael Haley (Marlboro, Mass.), David Theodore Mozzoni II (Warwick, R.I.) and Fanny Mlinarsky (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology teaches creating a real time visualization and analysis of Wi-Fi performance and behavior of a DUT in wireless communication with a selected Wi-Fi test device. Also included is performing a radiated test of the DUT using transceiver signals from multiple test antennas impinging on antennas of the DUT, capturing packe...