ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,131, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Energy-aware topology" was invented by Carlos Pignataro (Cary, N.C.), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Eric A Voit (Bethesda, Md.), Nagendra Kumar Nainar (Morrisville, N.C.) and Marcelo Yannuzzi (Nuvilly, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network of devices can be stabilized by administering an energy-aware topology that corresponds to a desired state derived in part from one or more sustainability metrics. Devices suitable for stabilization can include a processor, a memory, a plurality of elements, a communication port coupled ...