ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,584, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Diehl Metering GmbH (Ansbach, Germany).

"Method and system for increasing probability of transmission in a subscriber network" was invented by Hristo Petkov (Nuremberg, Germany), Raphael Mzyk (Kammerstein, Germany), Thomas Kauppert (Nuremberg, Germany), Klaus Gottschalk (Winkelhaid, Germany), Gerd Kilian (Erlangen, Germany), Josef Bernhard (Nabburg, Germany), Jakob Kneissl (Fuerth, Germany), Johannes Wechsler (Spalt, Germany), Raimund Meyer (Fuerth, Germany), Dominik Soller (Schwaig, Germany), Michael Schlicht (Erlangen, Germany) and Frank Obernosterer (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...