ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,500, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Prioritized scheduling of scan radio for fast location and rogue update rates" was invented by Raj Kumar Taneja (Twinsburg, Ohio), Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Lucy Huang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Prioritized scheduling of scan radio for fast location and rogue update rates may be provided. Channel events for a plurality of channels of an Access Point (AP) may be tracked. A scan score for at least one channel of the plurality of channels of the AP may be updated based on tracking of the channel events. A mod...