ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,053, issued on March 4, was assigned to Synapse Wireless Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.).
"Systems and methods for adding nodes to a wireless network" was invented by Coleman D. Bagwell (Madison, Ala.), Jon Martin (Huntsville, Ala.) and Benjamin Kade Taylor (Huntsville, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for selecting a suitable proxy to be used for adding a new node to an existing wireless mesh network and quickly finding the new node and bringing it into a wireless mesh network. More specifically, in some embodiments of the present disclosure, a neighbor of the target node can be automatically and quickly ...