ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,435, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANOVA TECH S.R.L. (Padua, Italy).
"Methods for data transmission on Ethernet multidrop networks implementing dynamic physical layer collision avoidance" was invented by Piergiorgio Beruto (Genoa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting data on a communication network, the communication network including a plurality of network nodes connected to one same medium for sending and receiving data signals. The data are transmitted by nodes on the medium during transmission cycles, and each transmission cycle includes a plurality of transmission opportunities each of which is allo...