ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,502, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Best links for wireless clients" was invented by Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Best links for wireless clients may be provided. A computing device may receive, from a client device, a request to join a network. Then, in response to receiving the request to join the network, initial characteristics of the client device may be evaluated. Next, an initial plurality of links list may be provided to the clie...