US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Mitsubishi Electric on April 29 for "Suspendable CSMA/CA for IEEE 802.15.4 system to reduce packet discard caused by backoff failure" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,763, issued on April 29, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Suspendable CSMA/CA for IEEE 802.15.4 system to reduce packet discard caused by backoff failure" was invented by Jianlin Guo (Newton, Mass.), Yukimasa Nagai (Tokyo), Takenori Sumi (Tokyo), Kieran Parsons (Gloucester, Mass.) and Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-executed method is provided for IEEE 802.15.4 devices based on a suspendable carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) control program and standard CSMA/CA control program...