US Patent Issued to ITRON on Oct. 7 for "Reboot time metric determination for access points" (Minnesota, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,327, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Reboot time metric determination for access points" was invented by Keith Wayne Barnes (Waseca, Minn.) and Thomas F. Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments set forth a method comprising detecting, by an access point, that the access point has obtained network connectivity after a first reboot event; in response to detecting that the access point has obtained network connectivity after the first reboot event: determining, by the access point, a first amount of time between a first reboot time associated with the first reb...