ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,018, issued on July 22, was assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method and access point for determining and processing a terminal in a sticky roaming state" was invented by Dong Shen (Chengdu, China), Rui Wang (Chengdu, China), Yang Jiang (Chengdu, China) and Bin He (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a method for determining a terminal in a sticky state. The method includes: determining whether a roaming target determination is supported for a terminal by a first AP; performing an operation for the roaming target determination based on determining that the roaming target determinat...