US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 27 for "Adaptive forward error correction in low-power wide area networks (LPWANS)" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,622, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adaptive forward error correction in low-power wide area networks (LPWANS)" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France) and Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, techniques for adaptive forward error correction (FEC) in Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANS) are disclosed. The techniques may include determining, by a process, for a block of messages transmitted through a computer network with forward error correction, whether any unrecovered data loss occurred during transmission; in...