ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,053, issued on May 5, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Synchronization in optical wireless networks for interference suppressing" was invented by Andries Van Wageningen (Wijlre, Netherlands) and Karnekumar Arulandu (Breda, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an optical wireless communication, OWC, network (100), time division multiple access, TDMA, is commonly used for interference suppression among multiple network devices (D1-Dn) associated to a single coordinator, or among adjacent coordinators (C1-Cn). However, an offset of MAC cycles among two adjacent coordinators (C1-C2) may still result ...