ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,588, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Phillips 66 Co. (Houston).
"Industrial wireless systems with channel selection" was invented by Shahid Bashir (Katy, Texas), Paul L. Bird (Granite City, Ill.), John W. Gusewelle (Dorsey, Ill.), Scott M. Gallagher (Fulshear, Texas) and Brendan R. Keuss (Westlake, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data acquired by numerous wireless sensors in a large industrial setting is communicated to the operations center via nodes in defined geographic cells where the signals from the sensors may be depowered to naturally attenuate below the perception of most other receiving nodes in the industrial system. I...