ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,463, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Alarm.com Inc. (Tysons, Va.).
"Network topology backup" was invented by Matthew Flannery Knight (Boston) and John Douglas Penning (Washington).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described that determines that a replacement node device has been connected to a mesh network, the replacement node device corresponding to an original node that has been removed from the mesh network. In response to determining that the replacement node device has been connected to the mesh network, network topology data is accessed that specifies one or more data routing configurations that are each associated ...