ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,922, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and gateway device for transmitting datagrams via a plurality of networks" was invented by Benjamin Knab (Karlsbad, Germany), Saad Nhili (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Anil Kumar Chorppath (Rastatt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transmitting a plurality of datagrams by a gateway device with a plurality of network interfaces includes determining a first priority queue from a plurality of the priority queues for transmittal of a first datagram from the plurality of datagrams, based on a filter and the datagram identifier of the first datagram, and pl...