ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,129, issued on July 14, was assigned to H2Ok Innovations Inc. (Millbrae, Calif.).

"Secure tamper resistant data processing, storage, and transmission gateway and controller and data anomaly detection program" was invented by David Yang Lu (Millbrae, Calif.), Annie Jieying Lu (Millbrae, Calif.), Joseph Michael Sanchez Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Edward Jitong Liu (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tamper-proof gateways are described. A gateway comprises a date intake module, a data transmission module, a tamper switch and a controller. The data intake module couples to one or more data generation devices. The data tr...