ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,301, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo) and SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (New York).
"Beaconing in small wavelength wireless networks" was invented by Mohamed Abouelseoud (Burlingame, Calif.), Ramy Abdallah (San Jose, Calif.) and Kazuyuki Sakoda (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reduced signaling overhead is provided in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals. A peer beacon contains time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer station...