US Patent Issued to ITRON on Feb. 18 for "Peer selection for data distribution in a mesh network" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,492, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Peer selection for data distribution in a mesh network" was invented by Imad Jamil (Beynes, France), Jerome Bartier (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Fabrice Monier (Bry-sur-Marne, France) and Samuel De Vals (Louveciennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclose a method performed by a first node device in a mesh network that includes receiving respective messages from respective neighbor node devices that have one or more blocks of a dataset, determining a quality score for a second node device of the respective neighbor node devices, and...