US Patent Issued to QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS on Dec. 2 for "Distributed routing elections" (Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,172, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUIXOTIC HOLDINGS LLC (Fife, Wash.).

"Distributed routing elections" was invented by Ryan Scott Luther (Lakeland, Fla.), Anthony Samuel Jacobs (Olney, Md.), Charles Robert Gorectke (Lakeland, Fla.) and Christopher Michael Garman (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for operating a first node in a mesh network having other nodes is described. The first node directly receives signals each encoding an identifier of one of the other nodes, at least a portion of the signals also encoding an indication that the node having the identifier has appointed itself a routing node. The facilit...