ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,232, issued on April 14, was assigned to SPINTLY INC. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"System and method for reducing congestion in mesh network" was invented by Rohin Parkar (Ponda, India), Aniket Shet (Bicholim, India), Mohinish Naik (Cortalim, India) and Malcolm Dsouza (Margao, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (100) to reduce congestion in an access control wireless mesh network, the system (100) comprising: a plurality of nodes (102) such that each node of the plurality of nodes (102) is coupled to one or more neighbouring nodes, and configured to store a mapping between a plurality of credentials associated with each neighbour...