ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,912, issued on March 4.
"Hierarchical combination of distributed statistics in a monitoring network" was invented by Ajay Khoche (West San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for creating a monitoring network are described. A server associates a master wireless node with a package in a first set of associated packages. The server and the master wireless node communicate with one another over first type of wireless communications interface. The server also associates a peripheral wireless node with another package in the set and with the master node. The peripheral wireless node ...