US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 17 for "Maintaining area networks in response to losses of coordinators" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,440, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Maintaining area networks in response to losses of coordinators" was invented by Binh Tran (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Chan (Los Altos, Calif.), Chiu Ngok Eric Wong (San Jose, Calif.) and Haoran Xiao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronized wireless network includes a root coordinator and any number of other coordinators that are synchronized with the root coordinator, e.g., according to a communication schedule established by the root coordinator and transmitted to the other coordinators in one or more beacons. The other coord...