US Patent Issued to NETGEAR on July 1 for "Repurposing consumer electronic devices as nodes in wireless mesh networks" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,981, issued on July 1, was assigned to NETGEAR INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Repurposing consumer electronic devices as nodes in wireless mesh networks" was invented by Tae Ho Kim (Richmond, Canada), Hai Duy Nguyen (Richmond, Canada) and Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Introduced here are approaches to improving the coverage of mesh networks that involve repurposing consumer electronic devices as nodes. By repurposing consumer electronic devices that are configured for a Wi-Fi wireless network protocol, the "dead spot" issue that plagues traditional wireless networks can be addressed at minimal...