US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on June 24 for "Method for optimizing the transfer data rate in a sensor network in partial network operation in an ethernet network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,626, issued on June 24, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for optimizing the transfer data rate in a sensor network in partial network operation in an ethernet network" was invented by Helge Zinner (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Daniel Hopf (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes the following steps: a) a head node determining the number of active nodes; b) the head node classifying the identified nodes into two or more classifications of nodes in order to prioritize the Ethernet network communication; c) the head node receiving reservation r...