US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on April 15 for "Automation network and method for transmitting data in an automation network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,957, issued on April 15, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Automation network and method for transmitting data in an automation network" was invented by Holger Buttner (Berlin), Dirk Janssen (Verl, Germany), Erik Vonnahme (Salzkotten, Germany), Thorsten Bunte (Gutersloh, Germany) and Thomas Rettig (Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automation network comprises at least one primary subscriber, at least one switch, and at least one network subscriber. The primary subscriber comprises primary ports, the switch comprises switching ports, and the subscriber comprises subscriber ports, eac...