ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,366, issued on May 13, was assigned to xMatrix LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Multi-services application gateway and system employing the same" was invented by Amir Ansari (Plano, Texas), George A. Cowgill (Farmersville, Texas), Ramprakash Masina (Plano, Texas), Jude P. Ramayya (Richardson, Texas), Alvin R. McQuarters (Euless, Texas), Atousa Raissyan (Potomac, Md.) and Leon E. Nicholls (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent gateway device provided at a premise (home or business) for providing and managing application services associated with use and support of a plurality of digital endpoint devices associated ...