US Patent Issued to Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing on Nov. 18 for "APL field switch with dynamic power allocation" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,834, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing Inc. (Middletown, Pa.).

"APL field switch with dynamic power allocation" was invented by Lonnel J. Swarr (Mannheim, Pa.), David N. Katz (Hummelstown, Pa.), Jason Alan Norris (Stow, Ohio) and Brian John Gillespie (Mount Joy, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An APL field switch includes a number of ports that transmit power to APL field devices connected to spurs extending from the ports. The APL Power Class of each port can be dynamically set by a user to enable more efficient allocation of power to the ports to meet the needs of the connected fiel...