US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM on June 24 for "Method for detecting neighbouring nodes able to communicate by powerline and by a radio channel" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,178, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method for detecting neighbouring nodes able to communicate by powerline and by a radio channel" was invented by Jerome Barois (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Guillaume Bacri (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for detecting the ability of a neighbouring node to communicate by powerline on a frequency band by a radio channel in a mesh communication network, wherein each node device sends packets on a frequency band over the radio channel: generates and sends a frame including a field including primitiv...