ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,948, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method for data interworking between application and IoT device and middleware device for performing the method" was invented by Tai Gil Kwon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed are a method for data interworking between an application and an IoT device, and a middleware device for performing the method. The method may include generating matching information between an IoT device and a network protocol used by the IoT device based on IoT device profile information, and analyzing a request message rec...