ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,133, issued on May 13, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Automatic upgrade planning" was invented by May Zar Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Keh-Ming Luoh (Fremont, Calif.), Yashwanth Venkata Krishna Chanamolu (Dublin, Calif.), Jacob Thomas (Saratoga, Calif.), Wenfeng Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Wesley Purvis (Yardley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described by which a network management system (NMS) receives, from a plurality of access points (APs) configured to provide a wireless network, received signal strength indicator (RSSI) values. The NMS generates, based on the RSSI values, a graph of ...