ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,273, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to JABIL INC..

"System and method for collecting real-time manufacturing data using an internet of things factory gateway" was invented by Stephen Mansfield (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for collecting real time manufacturing data from a factory having multiple machines therein using internet-of-things (IoT) connectivity, comprising: at least one gateway comprising at least one server, the at least one gateway receiving data from the multiple machines; at least one machine communications module (MCM) that applies to the received data at least factory, ent...