ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,192, issued on July 29, was assigned to SYSTECH Corp. (Escondido, Calif.).

"Dual channel gateway device for machine-to-machine communication" was invented by La Vaughn F. Watts Jr. (San Diego), Dean McDaniel (San Diego), Donald G. Armerding (San Diego), Andrew Marder (San Diego), Anderson Wiese (San Diego) and Robert Lutz (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gateway devices can use dual cellular interfaces, each assignable to at least one of a plurality of network services, to provide reliable communications for client machines. A gateway device can use one of the dual cellular interfaces assigned to a first network service as a...