ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,461, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Firetide Inc. (Mission Hills, Calif.).

"Channel assignment for wireless access networks" was invented by Jorjeta Jetcheva (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ravi Prakash (Los Gatos, Calif.), Vinay Gupta (Kamataka, India), Sachin Kanodia (San Jose, Calif.) and Mohan Natarajan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Channel assignment for wireless access networks is directed toward improved overall communication capability of the networks. A network is formed of wireless access points (APs) coupled via wired (and/or wireless) links and enabled to communicate with clients via radio channels of each of...