US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on June 10 for "Enhanced broadcast transmission in unslotted channel hopping medium access control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,747, issued on June 10, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Enhanced broadcast transmission in unslotted channel hopping medium access control" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas) and Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a mesh network is disclosed. The method includes joining a network as a child of a parent node and receiving a downlink broadcast channel from the parent node. The method further includes setting the downlink broadcast channel as an uplink broadcast channel in response to the step of receiving."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2024, unde...