US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 18 for "Adaptive time slot allocation to reduce latency and power consumption in a time slotted channel hopping wireless communication network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,799, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Adaptive time slot allocation to reduce latency and power consumption in a time slotted channel hopping wireless communication network" was invented by Arvind Kandhalu Raghu (Plano, Texas), Ramanuja E. Vedantham (Allen, Texas) and Ariton Xhafa (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Excessive latencies and power consumption are avoided when a large number of leaf nodes (LNs) contend simultaneously to join a time slotted channel hopping wireless communication network having a root node (RN) interfaced to LNs by one or more intermediate nodes (INs). A firs...