ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,636, issued on April 29, was assigned to Lutron Technology Co. LLC (Coopersburg, Pa.).
"Collision detection method" was invented by Ankit Bhutani (Aston, Pa.), Richard S. Camden (Coopersburg, Pa.) and Galen E. Knode (Macungie, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device may receive packets according to a protocol, such as Bluetooth, and may rapidly react to receive an interfering RF packet instead of dropping the first RF packet and the interfering RF packet, to decrease message delay due to collisions in high device density environments. When a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) difference between the interfering RF p...