ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,793, issued on June 24, was assigned to BALLUFF GMBH (Neuhausen ADF, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for operating a number of IO-link devices by means of an IO-link master" was invented by Sebastian Hagen (Bempflingen, Germany), Ulrich Baur (Frickenhausen, Germany), Matthias Beyer (Reutlingen, Germany) and Manuela Schmidt (Filderstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operating IO-Link system having wirelessly connected IO-Link masters and several IO-Link devices divided into groups wirelessly connected by control system, at least one master with different configurations, one master with first configuration to operate first gr...