ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,178, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access point neighbor discovery for radio resource management" was invented by Vishal S Desai (San Jose, Calif.) and Young Il Choi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method of access point (AP) discovery, by a network controller is disclosed. The method includes receiving, AP configuration information for a plurality of potential neighboring APs. The method includes storing the AP configuration information for the plurality of potential neighboring APs in a neighbor discovery profile. The method includes identifying an in...