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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2022

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);

Inventors:

Samuel K. Strahan, Ballymena, GB;

Jeremy E. Loraine, Corsham, GB;

Assignee:

Sensata Technologies, Inc., Attleboro, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); B60C 23/04 (2006.01); G01L 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0212 (2013.01); B60C 23/045 (2013.01); B60C 23/0461 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); G01L 17/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method of improved communication between a wheel unit sensor and a master controller is disclosed. In this particular embodiment, the method includes determining, by the wheel unit sensor, whether a receive schedule of the wheel unit sensor indicates that a receive window has started. The method also includes in response to determining that the receive schedule indicates that the receive window has started, turning-on, by the wheel unit sensor, for the duration of the receive window, a wireless receiver of the wheel unit sensor. In this embodiment, the wireless receiver is configured to receive messages from the master controller.


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