MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311088467 A) filed by Schneider Electric India Private Limited, New Delhi, on Dec. 23, 2023, for 'bidirectional serial communication using a single light-emitting diode (led).'

Inventor(s) include Udupa, Anantha S; and Patil, Mangesh P.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to a system (100) for bidirectional communication, the system includes an infrared light emitter (102) that is configured to operate as both a transmitter and a receiver. The infrared light emitter is configured to transmit a set of data from an electronic energy meter to a utility server and receive configuration data from the utility server to the electronic energy meter, thereby obviating the necessity for a separate phototransistor as the receiver."

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