ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,244, issued on May 5, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Method for providing an efficient communication in a hierarchical network of distributed devices" was invented by Jan Christoph Schlake (Darmstadt, Germany), Santonu Sarkar (Bangalore, India), Marie Christin Platenius-Mohr (Hirschberg an der BergstraBe, Germany), Madapu Amarlingam (Vikarabad, India) and Reuben Borrison (Bruhl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing an efficient communication in a hierarchical network of distributed devices includes collecting first data from a first client device sent by a sensor via a second communicatio...