US Patent Issued to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT on May 12 for "Gateway device with a routing function" (South Korean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,526, issued on May 12, was assigned to VOLVO CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AB (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

"Gateway device with a routing function" was invented by Thomas Schaefer (Trier, Germany) and Wontaek Oh (Changwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data communication gateway for a construction machine communication system, the gateway comprising a first data interface, a second data interface, and a third data interface arranged to be mutually interconnected, where the mutual interconnect is controlled by a gateway electronic control unit, ECU, wherein the first interface is arranged to be connected to a private network of a c...