US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 12 for "Compression of internet protocol version 6 addresses in wireless sensor networks" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,208, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Compression of internet protocol version 6 addresses in wireless sensor networks" was invented by Alper Sinan Akyurek (La Jolla, Calif.), Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, Texas) and Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) addresses in a wireless sensor network is provided that includes storing, on a wireless sensor device in the wireless sensor network, a prefix of an IPv6 address in association with a key, forming an address indicator for the IPv6 address, the ...