ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,190, issued on April 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Techniques for enabling communication between a plurality of disparate networks and devices utiilzing various connection technologies" was invented by Behzad Barjasteh Mohebbi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, a system for enabling communication between one or more disparate networks and network devices utilizing various connection technologies. The system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions. The processor, when executing the instructions, may cause the system to modify a security gateway to provid...