ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,622, issued on June 17, was assigned to Control Station Ltd. (Leeds, Great Britain).

"Monitoring a field machine" was invented by Gary Ryecroft (Leeds, Great Britain) and Damian Allinson (Leeds, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication module (100) for monitoring a machine (200) includes a serial interface (110) connectable to a serial interface of the machine (200); a telecommunications interface (120) connectable to a telecommunications network; and a control unit (130) configured to transmit data received via the serial interface (110) to a monitoring server (300) via the telecommunications interface (120). The...