ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,418, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Handovers in wireless controller-based systems" was invented by Srinath Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.), Sudhir K. Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Bahador Amiri (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing optimized handovers of a client device between access points in wireless networks are provided. A first access point exchanges packets with a client device. The first access point receives a disassociation notice from the client device. In response to the disassociation notice, the first ...