ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,009, issued on June 30, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless planning for reduced power consumption" was invented by Taha Hajar (Chavannes-pres-Renens, Switzerland), Samer M. Salam (Beirut), Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Salvatore Valenza (Pomy, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless planning for reduced power consumption may be provided. Characteristics of a space may be received, wherein the characteristics include a representation of the space. A model of the space may be generated using the representation of the space. Next, a coverage requirement and a power saving requirem...