ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,304, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Methods for adaptive error avoidance to increase re-transmission reliability in time-slotted communication links" was invented by Prakash Govindaraju (Bangalore, India) and Avner Darren Fernandes (Vasco Da Gama, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node device of a communication network comprises physical (PHY) layer circuitry configured to transmit and receive data packets via a communication network; and processing circuitry connected to the PHY layer circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to encode a data pack...