ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,008, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multi-topology routing in next generation IoT networks" was invented by Jianlin Guo (Newton, Mass.), Kieran Parsons (Gloucester, Mass.), Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.), Takenori Sumi (Tokyo), Yukimasa Nagai (Tokyo) and Yuki Kawashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node device for forming a multi-hop network is provided. The node device is configured to discover two routing topologies, a regular routing topology for regular data delivery and a priority topology for priority data deli...