ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,870, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Frequency hopping technique for multiple frequency bands in networks" was invented by Udaya Shetty (Herndon, Va.), Prasad Samudrala (Suwanee, Ga.), Mithun Mathew (Kasavanahalli, India), Amit Kulkarni (Duluth, Ga.) and Yuvaraj Nagendran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach talking about orthogonal frequency hopping patterns definition and a unique way of defining hopping patterns for a time division multiple access (TDMA) wireless sensor networks doing frequency hopping. A frequency hopping pattern may cover virtually any f...