ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,103, issued on June 17, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).
"Method of autoconfiguration of communication network" was invented by Raik Frost (Erfurt, Germany), Thomas Freitag (Erfurt, Germany), Michael Frey (Erfurt, Germany) and Heiko Leutert (Erfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autoconfiguration of a plurality of nodes in a linear network allows extracting the address and position of each node. The nodes are identified by a unique identifier. The method comprises choosing a node in a network and extracting its identifier, and for the first node to the last but one node, transmitti...