ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,474, issued on May 27, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Automation system having a subscriber structure, distributor and method for telegram transmission" 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 system has a plurality of subscribers including a first primary unit, first distributor, second primary unit, second distributor, and at least another subscriber unit. First and second transmitting/receiving devices of the fi...