ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,832, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Migration of network traffic between licensed and unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Sri Gundavelli (San Jose, Calif.) and Vimal Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to migrating network traffic from a licensed spectrum to an unlicensed spectrum within the same radio access technology (RAT). In one aspect, a method includes identifying a user device connected to a cellular wireless access technology, over a licensed spectrum; determining whether a condition for switching network traffic asso...