US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 11 for "Validation of compatibility of industrial gateway devices" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,120, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Validation of compatibility of industrial gateway devices" was invented by Marcio Barbosa Monteiro (Mallow, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to perform validation of a compatibility of a gateway device, the request specifying one of a plurality of different communication protocols for use in communicating with the gateway device as part of the validation. The processing device is also configured to select, from a database, a dataset for use in validating the compatibility of...