US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Systems and methods for WI-FI collision avoidance" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,309, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for WI-FI collision avoidance" was invented by Rachel Y. Ward (Lewisville, Texas), Matthew Scott Deatrick (Oak Ridge, N.J.), Mun Wei Low (Irving, Texas) and Manuel Enrique Caceres (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to collect first usage data from a first WI-FI router in a first customer premises equipment (CPE) network; collect second usage data from a second WI-FI router in a second CPE network; and determine that a collision avoidance plan between the first...