ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,291, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Closed loop transmit power control" was invented by Vishal Satyendra Desai (San Jose, Calif.) and Pooya Monajemi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network of access points may be provided. Access points operating in a low power indoor (LPI) mode and access points operating in a standard power (SP or SPI) mode are identified. The access points operating in an SP or SPI mode are sorted by available frequencies and maximum power budget. For each access point in the network, a composite radio frequency (RF) density score is determined, wherein higher density s...