US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods for performing opportunistic communication in a wireless mesh network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,555, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for performing opportunistic communication in a wireless mesh network" was invented by Arun Vijayakumari Mahasenan (Fremont, Calif.), Venkateswara Rao Manepalli (San Jose, Calif.) and Langford M Wasada (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein include techniques for localizing devices connected to wireless networks, such as wireless mesh networks. A device connected to a wireless mesh network may maintain and share information, such as location data and identifiers, regarding the device and other devices conne...