ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,724, issued on May 6, was assigned to Pilz GmbH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).
"Modular control device with redundant channel units" was invented by Udo Muller (Ostfildern, Germany), Winfried Gruber (Ostfildern, Germany), Richard Veil (Ostfildern, Germany), Johannes Digel (Ostfildern, Germany), Stephan Raidt (Ostfildern, Germany) and Jurgen Riecker (Ostfildern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head module for a modular control device includes redundant channel units, each including a processing unit and multiple failure revelation units. The head module includes a bus disconnection unit configured to shut down a communicatio...