ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,128, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Cornell Pump Co. LLC (Clackamas, Ore.).

"Current loop transmitter circuitry for monitoring a dry contact switch state" was invented by Jonathan Cedarleaf (Milwaukie, Ore.), Adam Lindeman (Portland, Ore.), Colin O'Callaghan (Portland, Ore.) and Aaron Weiss (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a device input, an output connector configured to connect to a current loop, and current loop transmitter circuitry. The current loop transmitter circuitry receives, via the device input, an input from a dry contact switch, and translates a state of the dry contact switch to a cu...