ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,781, issued on July 15, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"System for transmitting information via electric lines and method for operating the system" was invented by Helmut Belz (Waghausel, Germany), Benjamin Moos (Bretten, Germany) and Josef Schmidt (Graben-Neudorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a system and method for operating a system, a drive is connectable to a supply-voltage source, especially an AC-voltage source, with the aid of an apparatus, in particular a control unit, via electric lines installed in the system, and information is transmittable between the control unit and the d...