Patent ID: 11860269
Assignee: PERCEPTIVE INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 27:
28. An end node distributor for distributing probing signals generated by an object detection system among two or more transponders to detect one or more objects in an environment, wherein the end node distributor is physically separate from the object detection system and the two or more transponders while being communicatively coupled thereto through a node link and communication links respectively, the end node distributor comprising:
an inter-transponder demultiplexer configured to receive a node signal comprising a plurality of multiplexed probing signals, from the object detection system and generate two or more multiplexed probing signals using the node signal;
an inter-transponder multiplexer configured to generate an echo node signal comprising a plurality of multiplexed echo signals, using two or more multiplexed echo signals received from two or more transponders; and
a first router configured to couple the node signal from a node link to the inter-transponder demultiplexer and to couple the echo node signal from the inter-transponder multiplexer to the node link.