ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,906, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Body area network with transmit-only devices" was invented by Vivek Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kaustubh Gandhi (Filderstadt, Germany), Sushanta Mohan Rakshit (Milpitas, Calif.) and Abhinav Kunchamwar (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring and utilizing a body area network (BAN) is provided. In a configuration phase, configuration messages are sent for scheduling a plurality of transmit-only devices such that during a data collection phase each of the plurality of transmit-only devices is configured to transmit in an individually-...