ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,671, issued on June 17.

"Data collection from asynchronous transmissions in wireless mesh networks" was invented by Vladimir Sulc (Brada-Rybnicek, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless mesh network includes a controller in wireless communication with a plurality of slave devices where each slave device is assigned a virtual routing number that defines a time slot in a TDMA communications frame. The slave devices are configured to receive, out of band/or separately from the TDMA communications frame, asynchronous transmissions of sensor data from battery operated sensor devices. The battery operated sensor devices t...