ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,390, issued on March 17.

"Lorawan gateway network and method" was invented by Marco Bonig (Dortmund, Germany), Daniel Hollos (Berlin) and Carsten Brinkschulte (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for communication in a LoRaWAN mesh gateway network, wherein the LoRaWAN mesh gateway network has a plurality of end devices, a plurality of gateways and a network server. Here, one of the gateways performs server functions of the communication method that are intended for the network server (NS) according to the LoRaWAN protocol."

The patent was filed on Feb. 11, 2021, under Application No. 17/798,895....