US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Aug. 4 for "Survey and optimizer system for large public venue access point networks with steerable antenna beams" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,444, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Survey and optimizer system for large public venue access point networks with steerable antenna beams" was invented by John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio) and Fred Jay Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to optimize wireless local area network access point beam settings. A method includes, during a survey period, causing a first access point and a second access point in a wireless loca...