US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on June 3 for "Configurable controller for next generation control system" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,267, issued on June 3, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Configurable controller for next generation control system" was invented by Darren Woodman (North Granby, Conn.) and Kevin G. Hawes (Tolland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An environmental control system includes a broadcast-type controller area network (CAN) bus and a plurality of configurable modular controllers coupled to the CAN bus. Each of the plurality of configurable modular controllers includes a modular controller card with a microprocessor and a modular driver board configured to connect and disconnect to and from the controller card...