US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on July 15 for "Systems and methods for determining locations of access points" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,674, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining locations of access points" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Pooya Monajemi (Irvine, Calif.), Santosh Ghanshyam Pandey (Fremont, Calif.) and Jean-Philippe Marcel Vasseur (Saint-Martin-d'Uriage, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to determine location-related data for a plurality of access points located in an area in communication with a network by determining that a plurality of access points in a network are associated with a same geographical area including identifying, from among the ...