US Patent Issued to ITRON on Nov. 18 for "Relay for coupling remotely-located leaf nodes to a wireless network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,436, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Relay for coupling remotely-located leaf nodes to a wireless network" was invented by Bruce Edwards (San Jose, Calif.) and Kunal Pankaj Shah (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first node includes determining respective routing metrics for individual nodes in a set of nodes, wherein higher values for a respective routing metric for a respective node of the set of nodes indicate a higher suitability for forwarding network traffic using the respective node of the set of nodes; receiving a first network packet; in respons...