US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 23 for "AP localization based on client anchoring" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,389, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AP localization based on client anchoring" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.) and Ardalan Alizadeh (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, systems, methods, and processes for improving the accuracy of access point (AP) location in a Wi-Fi network using client device data and AP ranging measurements. APs may be deployed across a specific area. The APs can range to one another and form a matrix of measurements. Techniques such as semidefinite programming or multidimensiona...