US Patent Issued to 3M Innovative Properties on May 27 for "Infrastructure article system for synchronizing blinks of infrastructure articles connected in mesh network" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,078, issued on May 27, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Infrastructure article system for synchronizing blinks of infrastructure articles connected in mesh network" was invented by Lingesh Venugopalappa (Bangalore, India), Justin M. Johnson (Hudson, Wis.), Eric J. Larson (Bayport, Minn.), James W. Howard (North Oaks, Minn.) and Mark G. Mathews (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiment herein provides an Infrastructure article (101) and method thereof for synchronizing blinks of infrastructure articles in a mesh network. The method includes detecting an expiry of a sync timer counted by...