ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,914, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamically selecting radios on station to reduce battery consumption" was invented by Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada), Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, computer readable medium, and circuits for transmitting, from an access point (AP), a multi-link device (MLD) grouping to a station device (STA); transmitting, from the AP, a policy to accept energy efficiency instructions that includes mu...