US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 12 for "Node configuration and self-healing for ad hoc networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,066, issued on May 12, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Node configuration and self-healing for ad hoc networks" was invented by Ariton E. Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Jianwei Zhou (Allen, Texas) and Xiaolin Lu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network includes at least one node to communicate with at least one other node via a wireless network protocol. The node includes a network configuration module to periodically switch a current node function of the node between an intermediate node function and a leaf node function. The switch of the current node function enables automatic reconfiguration of the wireless ...