ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,185, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic WiFi transmit power reduction to conserve device power in a mixed 5G/WiFi service area" was invented by Sukrit Dasgupta (Farrington, Mass.) and Federico Lovison (Fontanelle, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method can receive transmission metadata associated with a plurality of devices within an Internet of Things (IoT) network. The method can use a transmission sensing component (TSC) to measure transmission energy cost for each of the plurality of devices over a time period using the transmission metadata. The method ca...