ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,156, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Third-party enabled interference classification platform" was invented by Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Michael B. Delong (Macedonia, Ohio), Ashish Pasha Sheikh (Akron, Ohio) and Federico Lovison (Fontanelle, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for classification of wireless signals are disclosed. These techniques include receiving data describing radio frequency characteristics of a wireless network transmission environment and presenting the data for display on a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a network devi...