ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,113, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Grouping access points for automatic frequency coordination" was invented by Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.), Peiman Amini (Fremont, Calif.), Ardalan Alizadeh (Milpitas, Calif.) and Sachin D. Wakudkar (St-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network controller and various methods for grouping access points for AFC are presented. A method includes assigning a plurality of access points to a plurality of groups based at least in part on stored AFC reports for the plurality of access points, determining, for each group of the plurality o...