US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Aug. 19 for "Out of band network and passive interface device" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,575, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Out of band network and passive interface device" was invented by Joseph M. Maurio (Westminster, Md.), James M. Rogers (Columbia, Md.) and Alexander W. Beall (Rockville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system includes a primary network communicating in accordance with a first communications protocol an out-of-band (OOB) network communicating in accordance with a second communications protocol. The primary network includes first and second primary network nodes, which are connected via a twisted-pair cable. The first primary network ...