ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,861, issued on April 1, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Push-mode transmission method, associated recording device and medium" was invented by Henri Teboulle (Bois-Colombes, France) and Ziv Roter (Bois-Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for transmitting data in push mode by a transmitter device (100), comprising: (a) obtaining a value of an indicator (S) of the quality of the transmission conditions; (b) if the value indicates a quality of the transmission conditions greater than a quality threshold (S_Q, S_H), transmitting a frame, (c) and otherwise, if a rem...