ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,954, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning for management of positioning techniques and radio frequency usage" was invented by Gino M. Corleto (Pattensen, Germany), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved networking are provided. An indication that a mobile device is in a first region of a physical space is received, and one or more current exogenous factors are determined for the physical space. Positioning technique accuracy is predicted for each respecti...