US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 23 for "Dynamic operating roles for internet of things (IoT) devices in a network" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,297, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic operating roles for internet of things (IoT) devices in a network" was invented by Subramanian Anantharaman (Chennai, India) and Sreekanth Natarajan (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 an internet of things (IoT) device. In some implementations, the IoT device can select an operating role for the first IoT device in a local network. The operating role may be selected from between an endpoint role and a relay role. The operat...