ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,011, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive mechanism for network communication" was invented by Prakash C. Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India) and Sanjay Kumar Hooda (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for employing an adaptive mechanism in communications among network devices. Adaptive mechanism techniques may include adapting network operations relative to characteristics of devices and/or network access technologies or mechanisms used in the network. Adaptation may help to accommodate a wider variety of types of de...