US Patent Issued to CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Synchronization optimization method for EtherCAT master slaves" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,198, issued on May 27, was assigned to CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"Synchronization optimization method for EtherCAT master slaves" was invented by Yinglian Jin (Zhejiang, China), Binrui Wang (Zhejiang, China), Haochun Wang (Zhejiang, China), Kun Zhou (Zhejiang, China), Shanqiang Wu (Zhejiang, China), Wei Song (Zhejiang, China), Tao Zheng (Zhejiang, China) and Xianlei Chen (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A synchronization optimization method for EtherCAT master slaves is provided. By capturing a time when a master sends a data frame, a time when receives, and a time when a reference slave receives the ...