US Patent Issued to MarketSpark on April 7 for "Reporting delay mitigation apparatus, system, and methods thereof" (Alabama, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,259, issued on April 7, was assigned to MarketSpark Inc. (Bannockburn, Ill.).

"Reporting delay mitigation apparatus, system, and methods thereof" was invented by Charles Wilson (Hampton Cove, Ala.) and Patrick Burns (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system for communicating between a customer device operating in a tone-based reporting format and a central monitoring station (CMS) operating in an IP-based reporting format may include a message tone detector, an IP message generator, an IP acknowledgement detector, a handshake and acknowledgement tone generator, and a processor communicatively linked with ...