ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,766, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Saving energy in wireless networks while preserving user quality of experience" was invented by Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric M. Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for dynamically optimizing a wireless network topology to minimize energy consumption while preserving user quality of experience (QoE) are described. An example technique includes determi...