ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,481, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Network discovery method" was invented by Daniel Alexander Kliem (Hamburg, Germany) and Pascal Urban (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network discovery method includes: sending, by a master node in a logical root hierarchy level of a data network, a discovery message including a forwarding counter to a first slave node in the data network first logical hierarchy level via a child port; increasing, by the first neighboring slave node, the forwarding counter; forwarding the discovery message with the increased forwarding counter to a s...