ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,596, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"Channel selection based on multi-hop neighboring-access-point feedback" was invented by Ravi Kiran Mattaparti (Cupertino, Calif.), Virendra Malaviya (Cupertino, Calif.), Viney Kumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Hemant Bhatnagar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, an access point may receive, associated with other access points, information specifying one or more communication-performance metrics associated with the shared band of frequencies. Then, based at least in part on the one or more communication-performance metrics, the ac...