US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on July 1 for "Smoke detector device utilizing network communication protocol coexistence techniques" (Texas, Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,300, issued on July 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Smoke detector device utilizing network communication protocol coexistence techniques" was invented by Marcus-Alan Gilbert (Plano, Texas), Gilles-Arnaud Bleu-Laine (San Ramon, Calif.), Christopher Ganster (Villanova, Pa.), Radhakrishnan Suryanarayanan (Fremont, Calif.), Vinay Sagar Krishnamurthy Vijaya Shankar (San Jose, Calif.), Muhammad Sharifuzzaman Khan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Arvind Kandhalu Raghu (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for operating multiple communication protocols on a single channel. In embodi...