ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,686, issued on May 20, was assigned to Airbus (S.A.S.) (Blagnac, France).

"Message passing system for the allocation of resources in data networks" was invented by Paulo Mendes (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for allocating data transmission resources in a data network with a plurality of access points (AP). A first AP sends a discovery message including an identifier of a destination AP to all available neighbor APs of the first AP. The discovery message is forwarded by all APs to other neighbor APs. Each AP adds an identifier to the discovery message to create a list of visited APs for each discovery mess...