ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,171, issued on July 28, was assigned to Wirepas Oy (Tampere, Finland).

"Downlink routing solution for wireless communication networks" was invented by Jorge Morte Palacios (Barcelona, Spain), Hannu Hirvi (Tampere, Finland) and Juho Pirskanen (Kangasala, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Routing system is disclosed. The system comprises one or more head devices participating in routing operations and one or more destination devices. Each head device has one or more member devices. At least one head device is configured to in response to receiving from a member device an uplink data packet DPU, forward the DPU and store into a rou...