US Patent Issued to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG on May 6 for "Efficient communication to configure sensor nodes" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,422, issued on May 6, was assigned to FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V. (Munich).

"Efficient communication to configure sensor nodes" was invented by Jakob KneiBl (Erlangen, Germany), Gerd Kilian (Erlangen, Germany), Robert Koch (Erlangen, Germany), Karol Bieg (Erlangen, Germany), Dominik Soller (Erlangen, Germany), Josef Bernhard (Erlangen, Germany) and Markus Siebenhaar (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes a step of generating a magnetic signal with an electromagnetic functional unit, wherein the electromagnetic functional unit is an actuator of a loudspeaker of th...