ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,437, issued on April 22, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Dual-mode local gateway for legacy peripheral devices" was invented by Edmond Abboud (Antibes, France), Beranger Chanoir (Peymeinade, France) and Sylvain Fualdes (Biot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining, at a gateway, configuration data defining communication parameters for a peripheral device; receiving, at the gateway, a command to activate an inspection operating mode and deactivate a relay operating mode; in response to activating the inspection operating mode: establishing, with a local enterprise application, a first connect...