ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,321, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"System and method for determining a cable wear status" was invented by Eduard Faber (Stuttgart, Germany), Danny Schneider (Lichtenwald, Germany), Thilo Streichert (Stuttgart, Germany) and Silvia Starz (Weinstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system (10) for industrial automation, including a field device (1) with a function unit (2), in particular an actuator unit, sensor unit and/or control unit, which is configured to provide a function in accordance with a received payload (ND), and a communication unit (3) for receiving a payload signal (...