ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,787, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic traffic identifier mapping based on internet-of-things device presence" was invented by Santosh B. Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for dynamic TID mapping are provided. A network device creates an Internet-of-things (IoT) traffic identifier (TID) for IoT traffic. The network device determines a first operational spectrum for the IoT TID. The network device maps the IoT TID to access one or more links operating on the first operational spectrum, between the network devi...