US Patent Issued to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories on Oct. 14 for "Parallel redundancy protocol error detection" (Washington, Idaho, Virginia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,236, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc. (Pullman, Wash.).

"Parallel redundancy protocol error detection" was invented by Mauricio G. Silveira (Pullman, Wash.), Bharat Nalla (Ashburn, Va.), Rajeev Kumar Babu (Hutto, Texas), David J. Dolezilek (Pullman, Wash.), Edson L. Hernandez Cortinas (Pullman, Wash.), Nishchal Sharma (Vancouver, Wash.), Andrew W. Rash (Pullman, Wash.), Andrew A. Miller (Moscow, Idaho) and Lihua Ran (Pullman, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure pertains to systems and methods to detect network errors in a parallel redundant protocol (PRP) network. A node-lev...