US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 17 for "Geolocation-based automatic configuration of network devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,102, issued on June 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Geolocation-based automatic configuration of network devices" was invented by Balaji Sundararajan (Fremont, Calif.), Ankur Bhargava (Pleasanton, Calif.), Bhairav Dutia (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vivek Agarwal (Campbell, Calif.) and Aastha Verma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide for creating a network device hierarchy among a plurality of nodes. The network device hierarchy may include a plurality of geography-based groups defined by a corresponding number of geolocations. The operations further include associating...