US Patent Issued to ITRON on Feb. 10 for "Network protocol for battery powered devices within a wireless network" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,041, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Network protocol for battery powered devices within a wireless network" was invented by Thomas F. Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.), Keith Wayne Barnes (Waseca, Minn.), Howard Neal Brace (Waseca, Minn.), Imad Jamil (Beynes, France) and Fabrice Monier (Bry sur Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system implements a network protocol for devices and nodes within a wireless network. A first node within a subtree of nodes in the wireless network performs a method including receiving a discovery request from a second node included in the wireless net...