ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,136, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Wireless control system based on a hybrid network" was invented by Marco Haverlag (Mierlo, Netherlands) and Leendert Teunis Rozendaal (Valkenswaard, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the efficiency and reliability of communication, such as for control commands distribution and data collection, in a large and high density wireless control system (100), each one of a plurality of nodes in the system is assigned one out of three roles, a router node (200), a non-router node (300), or a data collector node (400). A node (200, 300...