ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,846, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris).

"Method for communication according to a TDMA protocol between a master device and at least one slave device" was invented by Patrick Thomas (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Raouia Ghodhbane (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for communication, according to a TDMA protocol, between a master device and at least one slave device, during which a plurality of frames are transmitted between the master device and the slave device, each frame being partitioned into a plurality of time intervals, at least one time interval having an analogue synch...