ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,164, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BERT LABS PRIVATE Ltd. (Bengaluru, India).

"Low powered wireless sensor network that optimizes energy consumption in battery operated sensor nodes" was invented by Rohit Kochar (Bengaluru, India), Amit Bhanja (Bengaluru, India) and Apurva Ankleshwaria (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy-efficient wireless sensor network (WSN) is disclosed. The WSN comprises one or more base stations, a plurality of branch nodes communicatively coupled to each of the one or more base stations, and a plurality of leaf nodes communicatively coupled to each of the branch nodes. The WSN is con...