US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 1 for "Reduced-complexity internet of things sensor" (Pennsylvania, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,339, issued on July 1, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Reduced-complexity internet of things sensor" was invented by William Carroll VerSteeg (Buford, Ga.), Clyde Robbins (Fort Washington, Pa.) and Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reduced-complexity Internet of Things sensor is disclosed. An example apparatus comprises memory storing one or more sensor event messages, a radio configured to determine a sensor event, a counter configured to output incremental counter states, and a control circuitry. The control circuitry may be in communication with the memory, the radio, and c...