ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,160, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Wireless network with channel hopping" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas) and Jyothsna Kunduru (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless network with network-level channel hopping. A wireless network includes a wireless device. The wireless device includes a receiver, a data channel selector, and a transmitter. The receiver is configured to receive a beacon signal comprising a beacon sequence value. The data channel selector is configured to select, as a pseudorandom function of the beacon sequence value, a data channel on which t...