US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for communication between analytic modules and a motor drive" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,849, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Method and apparatus for communication between analytic modules and a motor drive" was invented by Arun K. Guru (Brookfield, Wis.), Shankernarayan Ramanarayanan (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Kevin J. Riederer (Glendale, Wis.), James C. Sandell (Prior Lake, Minn.), Jon P. Vanderpas (Appleton, Wis.) and Chetan Chandrasekara (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for communication between a motor controller and an analytic module includes a Single Pair Ethernet interface with power supplied over the two data l...