ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,208, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Cooperative transmission continuous transmission enhancement" was invented by Mark B. Jorgenson (Kanata, Canada) and Robert W. Johnson (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for increasing the efficiency of an avalanche relay scheme is disclosed. The system and method include a plurality of networked nodes communicating in a slot and subslot scheme, with transmissions of a first signal from a first subslot relayed in subsequent subslots. The method and system include transmitting an initial transmission that includes the first sig...