US Patent Issued to ROSEMOUNT on Dec. 9 for "Ethernet-APL field device having reduced energy consumption" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,315, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ROSEMOUNT INC. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Ethernet-APL field device having reduced energy consumption" was invented by Yevgeny Korolev (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Brian Alan Franchuk (Red Wing, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device for an industrial process includes field device circuitry, an APL communication circuit, and a power circuit. The power circuit includes a power regulator configured to regulate DC power that powers the field device circuitry and the APL communication circuit, a main power sensor configured to generate a main power signal that corresponds to the DC power, a voltage...