US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 17 for "Smart utilization of data center illumination devices" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,583, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Smart utilization of data center illumination devices" was invented by Valentin Filippov (Maple, Canada), Elena Gribanova (Dublin, Calif.), Jenita John (Mississauga, Canada), David C. White (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and Rasika Anil Chaudhari (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for operating illumination devices on network devices are described herein. Illumination devices, such as light-emitting diodes, on network devices can provide useful status information when being observed by a technician. However, thes...