US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 23 for "Orchestrating low-power modes in network devices" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,356, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Orchestrating low-power modes in network devices" was invented by Clark A. Carty (Brunswick, Ohio), Kasi R. Nalamalapu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ruifeng Xue (Shanghai) and Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for orchestrating and managing various lower-power modes in a variety of network devices within a network are described herein. Various network devices, such as access points may be capable of entering one or more lower-power modes of operation that utilize less electricity to operate. Wh...