US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 13 for "Reducing power consumption in mesh networks" (Swiss, French, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,739, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing power consumption in mesh networks" was invented by Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Amine Choukir (Lausanne, Switzerland), Alessandro Erta (Licciana Nardi, Italy), Vincent Cuissard (Eteaux, France), Salvatore Valenza (Pomy, Switzerland), Stefano Ferrari (Le mont sur Lausanne, Switzerland), Kasi Nalamalapu (Cupertino, Calif.), Loris Gazzarrini (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Arun Khanna (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device identifies a plura...