US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on April 15 for "Apparatus and methods for mesh communication networks with broadcast messages" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,673, issued on April 15, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Apparatus and methods for mesh communication networks with broadcast messages" was invented by Matteo Varesio (Castellamonte, Italy) and Alessandro Lasciandare (Charvensod, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is a method including receiving, by a first device via a mesh communication network, a first broadcast message over a first communication channel, the first broadcast message having a first hop count, receiving, by the first device via the mesh communication network, a second broadcast message over the first communication c...