US Patent Issued to ITRON on May 5 for "Adaptive transmission management based on link latency" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,863, issued on May 5, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Adaptive transmission management based on link latency" was invented by Jerome Bartier (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Fabrice Monier (Bry-sur-Marne, France) and Yacine Khaled (Meudon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclose a method comprising determining, by a first node, a first link latency associated with a second node based on a time period between consecutive slots in a unicast listening schedule for the second node; in response to the first node detecting a failure in transmitting a first frame to the second node, determining, by the...