US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 13 for "Sleepy device operation in asynchronous channel hopping networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,008, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Sleepy device operation in asynchronous channel hopping networks" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas), Robert Liang (Frisco, Texas), Jyothsna Kunduru (Plano, Texas) and Kwang Seop Eom (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio communications device includes a RTC configured to run even during sleep for receiving from a coordinator node (CN) in an asynchronous channel hopping WPAN an asynchronous hopping sequence (AHS) frame that includes the CN's hopping sequence. A processor implements a stored sleepy device operation in asynchronous...