US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 18 for "Advanced switch node selection for power line communications network" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,783, issued on March 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Advanced switch node selection for power line communications network" was invented by Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas), Kumaran Vijayasankar (Dallas) and Xiaolin Lu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An algorithm for the promotion of terminal nodes to switch nodes in a PLC network reduces overall network overhead and collisions, while ensuring the appropriate selection of a switch node and minimizing the number of levels in a PLC network. It also ensures that the terminal nodes with appropriate signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) are promoted. It is desi...