US Patent Issued to Itron Global on Sept. 23 for "Reliable link quality estimation in multi-rate networks" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,127, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Itron Global SARL (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Reliable link quality estimation in multi-rate networks" was invented by Jerome Bartier (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yacine Khaled (Meudon, France), Khalid Maallem (Issy les Moulineaux, France) and Ahmad Kaouk (Meudon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to using communication metric data associated with multiple modulation schemes to achieve a link quality metric that is representative of the link as a whole, across the multiple modulation schemes that may be employed on the link. A calculation of a link quality metric may be...