US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Systems and methods for utilizing beacons in wireless mesh networks" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,364, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing beacons in wireless mesh networks" was invented by Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan (Fremont, Calif.) and Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to techniques utilizing beaconing in wireless networks, such as mesh wireless networks. For example, an electronic device may send a single beacon request over a wireless network, and other electronic devices in the wireless network may send beacons at a particular rate for a period of time in response to the beacon request. T...