ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,430, issued on June 24, was assigned to H.M. Electronics Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for dc power and data communication over a single pair of wires, for a quick-service restaurant" was invented by David O'Gwynn (Oceanside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for facilitating intercom communication for one or more quick-service restaurant drive-throughs are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: capture sound from a customer placing an order; generate order information signals that represent the captured sound; encode signals to form order data packets; transmit the order data packets to a b...