ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,423, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Radio discovery for a mesh access point (AP)" was invented by Thomas Vegas (Gland, Switzerland), Loris Gazzarrini (Lausanne, Switzerland), Anirban Karmakar (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Vincent Cuissard (Haute-Savoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio discovery for a mesh Access Point (AP) may be provided. Topology information associated with a first network may be received wherein the first network may comprise a mesh network. A Topology Descriptor Message (TDM) may then be created based on the topology information. The TDM may then be transmitted by a first Acc...