ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,645, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (Starbase, Texas).

"System and method of providing a wireless router" was invented by Joshua S. Salazar (Los Angeles), Ignacy Chorazewicz (Los Angeles) and Brandon Toy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various systems and methods for addressing the efficiency issues discussed in the application. An example system includes a control system, a vertical array antenna having a plurality of antennas that generates a planar zone beam, an omni-directional antenna, a switch for switching, as managed by the control system, between the v...