US Patent Issued to Operant Networks on May 12 for "Secure wireless industrial mesh network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,976, issued on May 12, was assigned to Operant Networks (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Secure wireless industrial mesh network" was invented by Roger L Jungerman (Petaluma, Calif.) and Randall King (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to secure wireless industrial mesh networking. An example wireless mesh network includes one or more wirelessly connected gateways communicatively coupled to a plurality of sensors and including a floating gateway and a backhaul gateway. Operations are performed in response to (1) receiving, at the backhaul gateway, a collec...