ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,749, issued on March 25, was assigned to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Automatically managing a mesh network based on dynamically self-configuring node devices" was invented by Ameya Pethe (Lake Saint Louis, Mo.) and Sindoora Koneru (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring a mesh network of node devices for routing data is described. Based on detecting a connection to a second device, a first node device sends a mesh node signature to the second device and receives a mesh node signature from the second device. The mesh node signature list of the first node device is updated to include the mesh nod...