ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,820, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for adaptive power management in wireless sensor communication" was invented by Ruban S (Tamilnadu, India), Balamurugan Ganesan (Bengaluru, India) and Eldhose K. George (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "While in a walk-test mode, a battery powered wireless sensor transmits a plurality of wireless communication signals each at a different transmit power level, and for each of the plurality of wireless communication signals, listens for a corresponding wireless acknowledgement signal. A security panel listens for the p...