US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 16 for "Wireless local area network (WLAN) roaming optimizations utilizing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) device" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,845, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Wireless local area network (WLAN) roaming optimizations utilizing a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) device" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert Edgar Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are techniques through which coordinated steering of a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) device can be utilized according to prioritized time-slices determined for each of multiple wireless access points (APs) for a wireless local area network (WLAN). ...