MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514084601 A) filed by Honeywell International Inc., Charlotte, U.S.A., on Sept. 5, 2025, for 'virtual network gateway.'
Inventor(s) include Lordi, Angela Lee; Haridas, Harshal S; Strilich, James; Mclaughlin, Paul F.; and Sanderson, Stuart.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A gateway system and method for use in an industrial process control system. The control system has a first network that uses a first communication protocol and at least one second network using a second communication protocol. A network interface is coupled to the second network and to a local area network coupled to the first network. A gateway converts supervisory control and data received on the first network from the controller in the first communication protocol to the second communication protocol and couples the converted supervisory control and data over the local area network to the network interface and the second network. The gateway converts information and data received in the second communication protocol on the local area network from the network interface and the second network to the first communication protocol coupling the converted data and information to the first network."
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