US Patent Issued to ITRON on Oct. 27 for "Node-based beamforming for carrier selection" (Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,819, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Node-based beamforming for carrier selection" was invented by Christopher Lloyd Osterloh (Waseca, Mich.) and Matthew Rockey (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises connecting, by a transceiver of a node, to a first network sector of a plurality of network sectors using a first antenna pattern, wherein the first network sector corresponds to a first carrier network of a plurality of carrier networks, a connection with the first network sector having a first signal strength, identifying, by a ...