ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,889, issued on March 17, was assigned to Triovega GmbH (Lubeck, Germany).

"Specific use of a gateway in operational technology networks" was invented by Benedikt Heintel (Kirchhundem, Germany), Alexander Luig (Eslohe, Germany), Paul Romanczyk (Hagen, Germany), Simon Walz (Braunschweig, Germany), Clark Gaebel (Lubeck, Germany) and Dmitry Kazakov (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus configured to receive an input message via the first interface. The input message having a first layer structure and containing an information piece associated with the top layer of the first layer structure...