ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,912, issued on April 8, was assigned to Altiostar Networks Inc. (Tewksbury, Mass.).

"Status messaging protocol" was invented by M Ramana Reddy (Andhra Pradesh, India), Sankarshan Sen (Karnataka, India) and Parvez Munir Khan (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product for radio synchronous status messaging between communications units in wireless communications systems. A change of status event by one or more first communications devices is detected. A message indicative of the detected change of status event is generated. The generated message is transmitted to one o...