ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,649, issued on June 24, was assigned to CoreTigo Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Industrial wireless communication networking device" was invented by Ofer Blonskey (Even Yehoda, Israel), Omer Ephrat (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Lorand Molnar (Szeged, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial mission critical networking communication device is adapted from a wired industrial networking communication device to provide wireless capabilities. Accordingly, the PHY of the wired device, that is communicatively connected to a first microcontrollers, is replaced by a second microcontroller. The second microcontroller is adapted to communicate ...