ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,845, issued on Oct. 28.
"Universal ethernet solution" was invented by Patrice Jaraudias (Biot, France), Jean-Jacques Adragna (Nice, France), Antonio Chauvet (Juan les Pints, France) and Gary R. Ware (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monolithic integrated circuit that supports multiple industrial Ethernet protocols, fieldbus protocols, and industrial application processing, thereby providing a single hardware platform that may be used to build various automation devices/equipment implemented in an industrial network, such as controllers, field devices, network communication nodes, etc. The monolithic integrated circuit m...