ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,543, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network device movement detection" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Ather Kanak (Mountain House, Calif.), Ardalan Alizadeh (Campbell, Calif.), Joel Aller (Milpitas, Calif.) and Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for detecting anomalous movements within network devices are described herein. Certain movements within networks devices are predictable and negligible. However, other movements may indicate a larger problem with the network, or network devices, especially when the ...