ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,263, issued on July 1, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Enhanced channel hopping sequence" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas), Timothy Schmidl (Dallas) and Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for enhanced channel hopping sequence is described. A pseudo random channel hopping sequence is redistributed using certain system specific parameters for separating adjacent transmission channels within a predetermined number of consecutive transmission channel numbers in the random channel hopping sequence to improve inter-channel interference between adjacent tra...