US Patent Issued to Phoenix Contact on Aug. 5 for "Method for transmitting data between a central control apparatus and a plurality of decentralized devices, and corresponding means" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,701, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Method for transmitting data between a central control apparatus and a plurality of decentralized devices, and corresponding means" was invented by Viktor Oster (Blomberg, Germany) and Lutz Rahlves (Tundern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "More efficient data transmission of safety-relevant data is achieved by a method for transmitting data between the central control apparatus and a plurality of decentralized devices, which includes generating, in the central control apparatus, a data telegram for the broadcast or multicast transmission ...