ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,947, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Device mobility in star topology network" was invented by Olivier Coutelou (Grenoble, France), Thierry Chiche (Saint Ismier, France) and Loic Caseras-Noale (Dirac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing mobility of communication devices, wherein a gateway manager is connected to a set of gateways, each gateway being paired with at least one communication device through wireless links and each communication device being paired to only one gateway, wherein a first database linked to the gateway manager includes pr...