US Patent Issued to TYCO ELECTRONICS UK on Nov. 4 for "Communication network for monitoring a chain based network" (British, Lithuanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,889, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TYCO ELECTRONICS UK LTD (Swindon, Great Britain).

"Communication network for monitoring a chain based network" was invented by Dominic Charles White (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Jonathan D. Roberts (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Tautvydas Mickus (Klaipeda, Lithuania), Paul D. Mitchell (York, Great Britain), David Grace (York, Great Britain) and Yi Chu (York, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication network for monitoring node state within a chain based network that includes a first base-station configured to transmit a ping signal and a plurality of nodes each configured...