US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on March 17 for "Packet routing in a layer 2 mesh network" (Taiwanese, American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,389, issued on March 17, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Packet routing in a layer 2 mesh network" was invented by Nathan Edward Tenny (San Jose, Calif.), Xuelong Wang (Beijing), Guan-Yu Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Ming-Yuan Cheng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides an apparatus operated as a relay node in a wireless mesh network for packet routing. The apparatus comprises processing circuitry that receives a packet including indications of a source node and a destination node. When the relay node is not the destination node, ...