ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,971, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Managing transmit power of networking devices" was invented by Nethra Muniyappa (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shubham Saloni (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rajarshi Bhattacharyya (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method for managing transmit powers of a networking device is presented. A network management device is configured to determine an expected path loss value at a receiver of a first networking device based at least on the distance between the first networking device and the second networking device. Further, th...