ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,668, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Adaptive frequency hopping in a communication network" was invented by Naveen Kumar Kala (Austin, Texas), Ariton Xhafa (Plano, Texas), Tariq Muhanna (Garland, Texas) and Mathew Giaramita (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for channel switching by a secondary node. The method includes: receiving, from a primary node, a downlink transmission, measuring one or more statistics about the downlink transmission, determining, from the downlink transmission, an uplink interval, transmitting, to the primary node during the uplink interval, the measured one...