ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,278, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ContiTech USA Inc. (Fairlawn, Ohio).

"Test results transfer protocol" was invented by Michael Wilder (Valparaiso, Ind.), Dustin Kendall (Marysville, Tenn.) and Cameron Banga (Valparaiso, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for communicating hose test information using a test results transfer protocol (TRTP) is disclosed. The system also includes a network interface. The system also includes a memory storage. The system also includes one or more processors configured to: initialize a plurality of status words according to the TRTP, generate a payload array configuration having a numbe...