US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 11 for "Access point duty cycled operation and power saving" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,394, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access point duty cycled operation and power saving" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin D'uriage, France), Eric M. Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved networking are provided. An access point (AP) determines an AP duty cycle based at least in part on transmission activity of a station (STA) associated to the AP. The AP duty cycle is signaled via one or more beaco...