US Patent Issued to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 11 for "Radio ethernet connector" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,426, issued on March 11, was assigned to United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Radio ethernet connector" was invented by Joseph T. Horsey (Alexandria, Va.), Colin L. West (King George, Va.) and Stephen B. Heintz (Bowie, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment device is provided for Ethernet communication to a radio. The device includes a transmit/receive circuit, an interface for universal serial bus (USB)-to-Ethernet, an oscillator, a supervisor circuit, a programmable read-only-memory (PROM), a current regulator, a printed circuit board and a housing. The transmit/receive...