ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,948, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Controlling operational characteristics of a plurality of wireless access points of a manufacturing environment" was invented by Jean de Dieu Mutangana (Detroit), Mohsen Bahrami (Birmingham, Mich.) and Hamed Asadi (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling one or more operational characteristics of a plurality of wireless access points of a manufacturing environment includes generating a plurality of state vectors based on network data associated with the plurality of wireless access points and identifying a set of actio...