ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,794, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Avalanche relay linking system" was invented by Mark B. Jorgenson (Kanata, Canada), Maxime Lepage (Drummondville, Canada) and Scott A. Klassen (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) system incorporating Avalanche Relay (AR) is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of network nodes such as a calling node, one or more intermediate nodes, and a responding node. The calling node transmits a link establishment message to the responding node through one or more intermediate nodes. The message is transmit...