US Patent Issued to L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Multipoint relay (MPR) network and related methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,472, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Multipoint relay (MPR) network and related methods" was invented by Christian Schlegel (Park City, Utah) and David G. Landon (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipoint relay (MPR) wireless network may include spaced apart nodes, with each node including wireless transceiver circuitry, beacon circuitry, and a controller coupled to the wireless transceiver circuitry and beacon circuitry. The controllers may be configured to operate the beacon circuitry to determine a respective link strength metric for each potential link between no...