ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,972, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Transmission method and node device implementing said method with limited maximum use time on a sliding time window" was invented by Jerome Barois (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Guillaume Juan (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission method for transmitting a packet from a first node device to a second node device of an electrical supply network, the transmission method includes the following steps performed by the first node device: transmitting the IP packet by radio frequency in the case where a level of use...