ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,103, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RESIDEO LLC (Golden Valley, Minn.).

"Superframe extension mode" was invented by Nagaraj Chickmagalur Lakshminarayan (Karnataka, India), Anand Kavatekar Narayan Rao (Karnataka, India), Sheetal R. Kadam (Karnataka, India) and Sachin Joy (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes entering a communication extension mode. After entering the communication extension mode, the method includes outputting via a network, to at least a first device of a first partition and a second device of a second different partition, a first beacon signal of a first communication extension mode ...