ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,440, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).
"Broadcasting communicating devices management" was invented by Olivier Coutelou (Grenoble, France) and Thierry Chiche (Saint Ismier, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing single function devices among communication devices broadcasting messages to gateways connected to a gateway manager, a single function device being only able to broadcast a message including a command. The method comprises: the gateways receiving messages sent from communication devices, each message containing an identifier of communication d...