US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 17 for "Spatially-indexed channel management operations" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,976, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spatially-indexed channel management operations" was invented by Roberto Muccifora (Ropraz, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland), Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Shailender Potharaju (Fremont, Calif.) and Mathieu B. Monney (Bussigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved wireless configuration are provided. One or more enclosing polygons of a deployment of access points (APs) are determined, and a first query for a regulatory database is generated bas...