ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,658, issued on July 8, was assigned to Butlr Technologies Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).
"Energy efficient wireless network of sensors" was invented by Andy Stubbs (Waltham, Mass.), Tengfei Chang (Canton, China), Ziran Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Jiani Zeng (San Francisco) and Honghao Deng (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system includes a wireless network that combines the functionality of the sensors with the formation and maintenance of the network, while balancing the network with the minimization of the energy consumed by the entire system. The system may include nodes, gateways, coordinators, extension sensors and bo...