US Patent Issued to Rockwell Collins on Sept. 1 for "Self-organized beam multiplexing for ad hoc directional mesh networking" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,889, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Self-organized beam multiplexing for ad hoc directional mesh networking" was invented by Carlos J. Chavez (Marion, Iowa), Scott C. Bjornsen (Marion, Iowa), Benjamin J. Haan (Marion, Iowa), Joseph M. Kelly (Center Point, Iowa), Sasha N. Oster (Marion, Iowa) and Daniel K Snodgrass (Palo, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for constructing a mesh network where nodes use time division multiplexing to define windows for directional communication between nodes in the network includes a discovery period during which node locations are established...