US Patent Issued to ITRON on July 21 for "Targeted parent selection for battery-powered devices" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,941, issued on July 21, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Targeted parent selection for battery-powered devices" was invented by Imad Jamil (Beynes, France), Keith Wayne Barnes (Waseca, Minn.), Fabrice Monier (Bry sur Marne, France) and Thomas F. Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Targeted parent selection for nodes within a network include, filtering, by a node in a mesh network using one or more first network optimization criteria, a set of potential parent nodes to generate a subset of potential parent nodes; selecting, by the node using one or more second network optimization criteria, a...