ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,131, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-protocol communication network" was invented by Victor Simileysky (San Jose, Calif.), Kiran Uln (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Saishankar Nandagopalan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-protocol network and methods for operating the same are provided. The method begins with establishing a wireless-connection between a first transceiver in a first device and a second-transceiver in a second device using a wireless-protocol. First, wired-protocol packets and non-packet data are received and converted in the first device to second-pack...