A professor with IU’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering in Indianapolis is among five Indiana University researchers to receive patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Yao Liang, Ph.D., is a professor of computer and data science with the school’s new Department of Computer Science. He received a patent for a wireless sensor network he worked to devise.
Liang confronted the challenge of acquiring data from multi-hop large-scale outdoor wireless sensor networks by developing a network that significantly improves data acquisition, and also reduces network transmissions and wireless communication costs.
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