US Patent Issued to DUKE MANUFACTURING on Jan. 28 for "Network system having a network appliance" (American, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,428, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to DUKE MANUFACTURING Co. (St. Louis).

"Network system having a network appliance" was invented by Benjamin Wann (Kirkwood, Mo.), Brian Heuckroth (St. Louis), Canyon DeVille (Lake St. Louis, Mo.), Kwame Bamfo-Agyei (Hazelwood, Mo.), Norman Bernard (Clark Freeport Zone, Philippines) and Brian Rain (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, components, and methods for use in a commercial kitchen intelligence system. A network appliance and a plurality of kitchen components are coupled to a data communication network. The network appliance establishes a VPN connection with a portal remote to ...