US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Automated frequency coordination (AFC) negotiated band access" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,405, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated frequency coordination (AFC) negotiated band access" was invented by John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Fred Jay Anderson (Lakeville, Ohio) and Vishal Satyendra Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques to allocate use of controlled wireless spectrum. A method includes receiving, from a wireless local area network service provider, a request for wireless local area network spectr...