ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,386, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Mesh network system and communication method of the same having data flow transmission sorting mechanism" was invented by Chiao-Yi Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses a mesh network system having data flow transmission sorting mechanism that includes station devices, mesh network devices and a portal network apparatus. The portal network device is configured to manage the station devices to perform communication with an external network through the mesh network devi...