ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,712, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resource-conserving telemetry for constrained devices" was invented by Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Roque Gagliano (Pully, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving telemetry in resource-constrained device environments. In some examples, the techniques include gossiping telemetry information between peer devices of a wireless network to, among other things, reduce telemetry cost and/or an amount of telemetry data st...