ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,183, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Extracting EtherCAT datagrams from an EtherCAT frame" was invented by Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for extracting EtherCAT datagrams from an EtherCAT frame. One method includes receiving an EtherCAT frame. The method includes determining a first EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT frame for a first device and a second EtherCAT datagram in the EtherCAT ...