US Patent Issued to GEA Farm Technologies on July 1 for "Method for determining a chain position of a network subscriber" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,377, issued on July 1, was assigned to GEA Farm Technologies GmbH (Bonen, Germany).

"Method for determining a chain position of a network subscriber" was invented by Marco Scholtyssek (Frondenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a chain position of a network subscriber in an Ethernet network, in which the network subscribers are connected in a daisy chain. In a first step one of the two ports of the Ethernet gateway is deactivated. In a second step a status message from one of the network subscribers concerning non-connected ports of the network subscriber in question is acquired. In a third step at le...