ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,835, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Broadcast energy and spectrum consumption optimization" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France), J. P. Vasseur (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France), Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Broadcast energy and spectrum consumption optimization is provided. A computing device determines a corresponding plurality of respective minimum Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCSs) needed to reach each of a respective plurality of client devices associated with the...