US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 16 for "Peer-to-peer communication in Wi-Fi networks in presence of interference" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,469, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Peer-to-peer communication in Wi-Fi networks in presence of interference" was invented by Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a system and method for avoiding interference in direct communication between peers in a Wi-Fi network. A station (STA) desiring to communicate directly with another STA reports a change in interference to a function that determines a set of unsafe frequencies caused by inte...