ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,891, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ubiquiti Inc. (Chicago).

"Using wireless packets to indicate device boot status" was invented by Robert J. Pera (Seattle), Yao-Chung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Andrejs Bogdanovs (Riga, Latvia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for using wireless packets to indicate boot status of a network device is disclosed. The method includes initiating a boot sequence of a network device. The method also includes during at least a portion of the boot sequence, transmitting a first wireless packet comprising data indicating a boot status of the network device, wherein the boot status indicate...