US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 18 for "Adding control or management data to block acknowledge or protocol data unit" (American, Canadian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,462, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adding control or management data to block acknowledge or protocol data unit" was invented by Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Scott R. Blue (Oulu, Finland) and John M. Swartz (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed methods and systems for efficiently gathering reports from stations coupled to an access point via a wire...