ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,325, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless transmission rate selection with stateless and offline dictionary compression" was invented by Alessandro Erta (Licciana Nardi, Italy), Carmine Benedetto (Pisa, Italy), Rupak Chandra (Fremont, Calif.) and Luca Bisti (Grosseto, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device in a wireless network selects a transmission rate for one or more packets to be sent, based on a received signal strength indicator value. The device makes a determination that the one or more packets should be compressed, based on the transmission rate sel...