US Patent Issued to Phoenix Contact on June 10 for "Primary communication apparatus, coupling module and communication system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,825, issued on June 10, was assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Primary communication apparatus, coupling module and communication system" was invented by Martin Kogelheide (Witten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A primary communication apparatus includes: a bus interface which is adapted to connect the primary communication apparatus to a data bus; a memory device in which software is stored; and a control unit. The control unit is adapted, when executing the software, to cause the primary communication apparatus to: provide a communication telegram for a predetermined secondary communication appa...