US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 3 for "Optimizing wifi access point placement with machine learning to minimize sticky clients" (Italian, Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,736, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimizing wifi access point placement with machine learning to minimize sticky clients" was invented by Tim S. Stirling (Gilly, Switzerland), Federico Lovison (Fontanelle, Italy) and Naga Raghu Ramprasad Nandigama (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatus for analyzing and optimizing an access point (AP) layout to reduce an occurrence of sticky clients within a network are described. An example technique includes obtaining a first layout of a set of APs to be deployed within an environment. A determination is made that at...