US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "Inter-PAN optimization by controller device redirecting target network devices to attach to selected parent devices" (Chinese, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,468, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inter-PAN optimization by controller device redirecting target network devices to attach to selected parent devices" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Huimin She (Shanghai) and Li Zhao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises: determining, by a controller device, load attributes for respective wireless network devices in a data network comprising at least a first wireless data network rooted by a first root network device, each wireless network device attached to at least an identified pa...