ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,172, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Destination-based automated frequency coordination" was invented by Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Alessandro Erta (Licciana Nardi, Italy), Roberto Muccifora (Ropraz, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Salvatore Valenza (Pomy, Switzerland) and Arun Khanna (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device determines a physical location of a mobile client of wireless network. The device performs a frequency lookup for the mobile client from ...