ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,552, issued on May 13, was assigned to AVL List GmbH (Graz, Austria).
"Communication module" was invented by Andreas Aldrian (Haselsdorf-Tobelbad, Austria), Christoph Wolf (Graz, Austria), Zhendong Ma (Vienna), Patrik Maier (Graz, Austria) and Samuel Sprung (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a communication module for transmitting data between at least one hardware component which is integrated into an internal network of a technical system and a back-end computer system which is connected to a packet-switched data network. The communication module has a device-proximal gateway and a network-proxim...