ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,261, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"EMI reduction in PLCA-based networks through beacon temporal spreading" was invented by Galin I. Ivanov (Stutensee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be communicatively coupled to other nodes in a network. The apparatus may include a control circuit configured to repeatedly issue transmission cycles to the other nodes. A given transmission cycle may include a least one send slot for each of the other nodes to send data. The control circuit may be configured to initiate transmission cycles by issuing beacon signals to the other ...