US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Oct. 28 for "Remote terminal unit processor redundancy synchronization" (Canadian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,553, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Remote terminal unit processor redundancy synchronization" was invented by Philip Aubin (Kanata, Canada) and Richard Masson (Rankin Park, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Redundancy synchronization of remote terminal unit (RTU) central processing units (CPUs) associated with an industrial operation includes queuing time-stamped events on a main RTU CPU for transfer to a standby RTU CPU as the time-stamped events are generated on the main RTU CPU (i.e., in real-time). The synchronized RTU CPUs further permit synchronization of logic ...