ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,881, issued on July 21, was assigned to HANGZHOU LIANXINTONG SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Hangzhou City, China).

"Method for reducing traffic of bootstrap procedure in G3-PLC networks" was invented by Yu-Liang Tseng (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Jie-Min Cao (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing traffic of a bootstrap procedure in G3-PLC networks includes: a network domain having a first relay node (LBA); and a first external node (LBD) and enabling a beacon request transmission trickle mechanism according to a network domain search request (ADPM-DISCOVERY.request) instruction; wherein after the first relay ...