US Patent Issued to SIGNIFY HOLDING on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for controlling a temporary gateway for ad-hock data needs" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,430, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for controlling a temporary gateway for ad-hock data needs" was invented by Leendert Teunis Rozendaal (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Peter Deixler (Arlington, Mass.) and Bozena Erdmann (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a Zigbee or other multi-hop network that can become a bottleneck for certain applications, e.g. entertainment streaming to (multiple) areas in the areas (e.g. at home) where hopping is needed. By locally utilizing an temporary gateway (50) being present right in a...