US Patent Issued to ITRON on July 8 for "Determining network reliability using message success rates" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,648, issued on July 8, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Determining network reliability using message success rates" was invented by Thomas F. Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.) and Keith Wayne Barnes (Waseca, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the present invention sets forth techniques for evaluating connections between nodes in a mesh network. The techniques include determining, by a first node, a number of messages received by the first node from a second node during a period of time, the period of time including a number of listening windows during which a message is expected to be received from ...