US Patent Issued to ITRON on Aug. 11 for "Network abstraction for endpoint devices" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,819, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ITRON INC. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Network abstraction for endpoint devices" was invented by Christopher Mock (Garner, N.C.) and Joseph Martin (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclose a method comprising, receiving, by a computing device, a first message for transmission to an endpoint from a messaging queue; determining, by the computing device, a first network to which the endpoint is connected; creating, by the computing device, an endpoint object corresponding to the endpoint, the endpoint object being configured with network specific information associated...