US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 13 for "Coexistence primitives in power line communication networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,302, issued on May 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Coexistence primitives in power line communication networks" was invented by Kumaran Vijayasankar (Allen, Texas), Ramanuja Vedantham (Allen, Texas) and Tarkesh Pande (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for setting a carrier-sensing mechanism in a PLC node are disclosed. In a PLC standard, coexistence is achieved by having the nodes detect a common preamble and backing off by a Coexistence InterFrame Space (cEIFS) time period to help the node to avoid interfering with the other technologies. In one embodiment, a PHY primitive is ...