US Patent Issued to ITRON on Sept. 16 for "Management of message transmission using forward error correction" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,360, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Management of message transmission using forward error correction" was invented by Thomas F. Uhling (Spokane Valley, Wash.), Keith Wayne Barnes (Waseca, Minn.) and Danny Ray Seely (Spokane Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing message transmission using forward error correction include determining, by a communication application executing on a first node device based on one or more consecutive attempts to transmit messages to a second node device without using forward error correction (FEC) being unsuccessful, to use FEC to tra...