ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,636, issued on May 5, was assigned to Aktiebolaget SKF (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for transferring data between a first wireless sensor and a gateway and associated network" was invented by Clement Poulailleau (Amboise, France) and Elias Naslund (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network (1) includes a gateway (2) and a wireless sensor (3). The gateway includes an emission means (4), a reception means (5), and a processing means (6). The wireless sensor (3) includes a reception means (8) and an emission means (7). A method for transferring data between the wireless sensor and a gateway includes the gateway emitting a fir...