ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,152, issued on April 15, was assigned to VERTIV Corp. (Westerville, Ohio).

"System and method for serial-over-IP switch based character string pattern matching and detection" was invented by Luke Terry (Round Rock, Texas), Joerg Weedemann (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Joseph Amirthasamy (Weston, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a system for detecting a user defined character string in serial data at least one of output from a target device or transmitted to a target device. The system makes use of a serial communications device configured to enable a user to conduct a serial-over-IP active serial sessi...