US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on April 22 for "Address generation for networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,154, issued on April 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Address generation for networks" was invented by Alper S. Akyurek (Richardson, Texas), Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Jianwei Zhou (Dallas) and Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network includes at least two nodes that employ a routing protocol to communicate across a network. One of the nodes is a parent node and another of the nodes is a child node of the parent node. An address generator assigns a unique network address to the child node by appending an address value of a number of bits to a parent address of the parent node ...