US Patent Issued to ITRON on Feb. 18 for "Time-multiplexing of multiple listening schedules and physical layer modes in a mesh network" (French, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,024, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Time-multiplexing of multiple listening schedules and physical layer modes in a mesh network" was invented by Fabrice Monier (Bry sur Marne, France), Jerome Bartier (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Yacine Khaled (Meudon, France), Imad Jamil (Beynes, France), Khalid Maallem (Meudon, France) and Samuel De Vals (Louveciennes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclose techniques for time-multiplexing multiple listening schedules and physical layer modes that include a first node listening, using a first physical layer mode, for a first network ...