US Patent Issued to ITRON on July 22 for "Messaging among message groups in a mesh network" (North Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,720, issued on July 22, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Messaging among message groups in a mesh network" was invented by Tommi Petteri Parkkila (Cary, N.C.) and Matthew Rockey (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein provide techniques for messaging among message groups associated with agents executing on nodes of a mesh network. A messaging application executing on a node of the mesh network receives a request from an agent executing on the first node to join a message group; verifies that a policy permits the agent to join the message group; adds the agent to the message...