ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,344, issued on March 4, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Link establishment in a multi-cell wireless network" was invented by Michel Germe (Cormelles le Royal, France), Haimin Tao (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Andreas Felix Alfred Bluschke (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Christian Jordan (Venlo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multi-cell wireless communication system (100) with at least one optical access point (120) and at least one radio frequency access point (120), more flexibility is provided to an end device (110) in selecting an access point (120) for establishing a data link. Because of...