ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,339, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Learning based routing link scheduling in heterogeneous wireless IoT networks" was invented by Jianlin Guo (Cambridge, Mass.), Zhiyang Wang (Philadelphia), Kieran Parsons (Cambridge, Mass.) and Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heterogeneous multi-hop wireless network is provided. The network consists of single-link data nodes, multi-link data nodes and data centers. The single-link data node supports one communication interface, the multi-link data node supports two communication interfaces and th...