ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,964, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Reducing the power consumption of end devices in wireless mesh networks" was invented by Doru Cristian Gucea (Bucharest, Romania), Marius Preda (Bucharest, Romania) and George Stefan (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing the power consumption of end devices in wireless mesh networks are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an end device may include: a controller; and a memory coupled to the controller, wherein the memory comprises program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the cont...