ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,109, issued on April 22, was assigned to Moxa Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Device and method of handling data flow" was invented by Zhi-Jie Yang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsi-Chin Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Tzu Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chuan Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network managing device for handling a data flow comprises a topology generating module, for generating a topology of at least one device of a network, and for determining at least one intelligent electric device (IED) of the at least one device according to the topology; a transmitting module, coupled to the topology generating module, ...