ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,080, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Transmit power control design for make-before-break roaming deployments" was invented by Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.), Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.) and Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for performing transmit power control for facilitating multi-band make-before-break (MBB) roaming are described. An example technique includes identifying a first access point communicating on a first band within a first cell. A second access point communicating on a second band within a second cell neig...