US Patent Issued to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT on Aug. 4 for "Gateway device having a format adaptation function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,028, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

"Gateway device having a format adaptation function" was invented by Thomas Schaefer (Trier, Germany), Peter Bauer (Konz, Germany) and Christian Bales (Waldrach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication gateway for a construction machine communication system, including a first, a second, and a third data interface arranged to be mutually interconnected.The first interface is arranged to be connected to a private network of a construction machine, the second interface is arranged to be connected to an attachment network, and ...