ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,476, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Predicting connection issues in a wireless band" was invented by Matthew Aaron Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.) and John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Connection issue prediction may be provided. A computing device may receive first Channel State Information (CSI) for a first link associated with a client device. The first CSI may be collected when beamforming was trained on a second link associated with the client device. Second CSI may be received for the first link associated with th...