ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,281, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Multi-user (MU) communication in a wireless mesh network" was invented by Vinod Belur Ramachandra (Chennai, India), Xiaolong Huang (Santee, Calif.), Shanmuganathan Palanisamy (Chennai, India) and Rajakumar Ebenezar Devairakkam (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing multi-user (MU) communication in a wireless mesh network. A first mesh node or a network management unit may collect information from various mesh nodes and fo...