ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,898, issued on April 21.

"System for reducing rerouting time in MANET using virtual buffer zone technique" was invented by Ashok Verghese (Chennai Tamil Nadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET), specifically to the management of routing protocols, and more particularly to a system and method to reduce rerouting time in MANET using virtual buffer zone technique. The system includes a plurality of nodes, each having a virtual buffer zone, which is a buffer area around the node. When a node detects a change in the network topology, it broadcasts a message to all the no...