US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Fine time measurement improvement for access point self-positioning" (North Carolina, California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,764, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fine time measurement improvement for access point self-positioning" was invented by Sivadeep Reddy Kalavakuru (Akron, Ohio), Laurent Alexandre Pierrugues (San Jose, Calif.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Behrouz Shayesteh (San Jose, Calif.) and Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fine Time Measurement (FTM) improvement for AP self-positioning may be provided. First, an Access Point (AP) graph may be generated. An AP pair may be determined for FTM AP self-positioning based on the AP graph, A plurality of Transmit (TX) si...