ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,407, issued on Sept. 8.
"Resilient machine-to-machine networks" was invented by Brian G. Agee (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter spreads a data signal with an inner spreading code to produce a first spread signal; modulates a link mask onto the first spread signal to produce a masked signal; spreads the masked signal with an outer spreading code to produce a second spread signal; and modulates the second spread signal onto a multitone transmission signal. The link mask can include at least one of a destination mask and a source mask. A network mask might be modulated onto the second spread signal to concea...