US Patent Issued to Federal Express on Jan. 27 for "Methods and node apparatus for multiple node communication paths to a server within a wireless node network" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,491, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Federal Express Corp. (Memphis, Tenn.).

"Methods and node apparatus for multiple node communication paths to a server within a wireless node network" was invented by Ole-Petter Skaaksrud (Germantown, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are described for enhanced node communication within a wireless node network having nodes and a server. A first subset of nodes transmits first data messages to the server without using an intermediary device where the first data messages include sensed data generated by the nodes of the first subset of the plurality of nodes about or aroun...