ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,501, issued on March 4, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program product for telemetry format conversion" was invented by Rodney Stein (Edmonton, Canada) and Ambika Khatri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A format conversion system provides an extendable library of data format conversion functions configured to convert raw data (e.g., telemetry data) from any number of original formats to at least one normalized format. Received raw data is routed to the appropriate format conversion function in the library based on format conversion routing metadata gene...