US Patent Issued to Sonos on Dec. 16 for "Data routing between devices in mesh networks" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,340, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Data routing between devices in mesh networks" was invented by Jeffrey M. Peters (Cambridge, Mass.), Steven Beckhardt (Boston), Hrishikesh Gossain (Barbara, Calif.) and Nicholas A. J. Millington (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first mesh network device is configured to (i) identify a set of wireless communication paths for communication with a second mesh network device, (ii) based at least on a wireless signal strength, determine that a second wireless communication path, and not a first wireless communication path, is to be used for commun...