US Patent Issued to Google on Dec. 2 for "Method and device for Thread over Internet Protocol" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,169, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and device for Thread over Internet Protocol" was invented by Jonathan Wing-Yan Hui (Belmont, Calif.), Abtin Keshavarzian (Mountain View, Calif.), Matt Daniel Smith (San Jose, Calif.) and Yakun Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and devices for determining a preferred physical layer for communication by a node in a Thread network are described. The node transmits a first IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks, 6LoWPAN, frame to a neighbor node using a first physical layer and transmits the first 6LoWPAN frame to the neig...