ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,529, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for low latency and high reliability wireless Direct Transfer Trip ("DTT")" was invented by Thomas W. Haynes (Clayton, Calif.), Samita Chakrabarti (Bedminster, N.J.) and Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may maintain information indicating groups of wireless trip devices. The system may maintain information associating each wireless trip device, of a plurality of wireless trip devices, with respective edge computing devices. The system may receive a wireless alert from...