ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,987, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device for and method of operating a radio network" was invented by Christoph Thein (Hildesheim, Germany), Ahmad Rostami (Solna, Sweden) and Rene Guillaume (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and a method of operating a radio network (100), the method comprising detecting a quality of a first radio channel that connects a first device (104) to the radio network, detecting a quality of a second radio channel that connects a second device (106) to the radio network, detecting a quality of a third radio channel that connects a thir...