ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,000, issued on July 29, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).
"Multipath geographic routing protocol" was invented by Paulo Mendes (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for routing data packets in mobile ad-hoc networks. An interest packet is sent from a data consumer to a data producer via multiple intermediate routing devices. The interest packet is transmitted from one routing device to the next routing device based on the geographic position of the routing devices and the interest message carries information about the links and network nodes it passes when being transmitted. The data packet is tr...