ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,036, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..
"Increasing channel availability" was invented by Evgeny Yankevich (Richfield, Ohio), Brian Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Matt Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Increased channel availability may be provided. A computing device may receive radio channel information comprising a radio channel to operate within and an incumbent indication indicating whether an incumbent is using the radio channel. Next, power to operate a radio at may be determined based on the incumbent indication. When the incumbent indication indicates an incumbent is present ...