US Patent Issued to SMC on May 13 for "Industrial wireless communication system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,278, issued on May 13, was assigned to SMC Corp. (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

"Industrial wireless communication system" was invented by Tomohiko Aki (Tsukubamirai, Japan) and Norimasa Ozaki (Tsukubamirai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an industrial wireless communication system. a base wireless device has a synchronous connection transmission unit for broadcasting a synchronous connection signal to achieve synchronous connection to a remote wireless device in only a single synchronous connection period which is an integral multiple of a hopping period. The synchronous connection transmission unit sequentially switches communicatio...