ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,306, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Transmitting announcement messages between network devices and building network connectivity graphs" was invented by Chiu Ngok Eric Wong (San Jose, Calif.), Choong Ryeol Lee (San Jose, Calif.), Shashi Bushan Pavuluri (San Jose, Calif.) and Karan Dilip Pradhan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first network device wirelessly transmits announcement messages in quick succession over multiple channels that represent normal operating channels of other network devices. The other network devices receive one of the announcement messages over the...