US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 1 for "Radio resource management driven energy management in wireless networks" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,898, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Radio resource management driven energy management in wireless networks" was invented by David John Zacks (Vancouver, Canada), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and James F. Florwick (Frederick, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to manage access points in a wireless network to save power during off-peak hours. The method includes operating a wireless local area network including access points with the access points powered on, receiving information indicative of channel utilization levels for each of th...