US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Retransmission of mesh link establishment advertisements in a thread network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,823, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Retransmission of mesh link establishment advertisements in a thread network" was invented by Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.), Manuel Roman Cuesta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yaranama Venkata Ramana Dass (Belmont, Calif.) and Sarvesh Kumar Varatharajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for a wireless device comprising a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. In a thread-based mesh network, a transmitting device occasionally transmits various multicast messages to the network for the...