ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,795, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless network contention reduction through dynamic radio frequency parameters" was invented by Vinay Saini (Bengaluru, India), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), John M. Swartz (Lithia, Fla.) and Joshua D. Suhr (Lenexa, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for wireless network management are provided. A first set of characteristics data for a plurality of wireless networks in a common physical space is collected. A use timelin...