ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,335, issued on July 28, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Scheduling transmissions from ambient power devices" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Matthew Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Ugo Campiglio (Ecublens, Switzerland), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Robert Barton (Vancouver, Canada), Sachin D. Wakudkar (Ecublens, Switzerland), Malcolm Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Indermeet Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, networks, systems, methods, and processes for scheduling tr...