US Patent Issued to Siemens on Aug. 5 for "Communication system, adapter for a terminal and method for securely transmitting time-critical data within the communication system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,865, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Communication system, adapter for a terminal and method for securely transmitting time-critical data within the communication system" was invented by Martin Wimmer (Neubiberg, Germany), Stefan Seltzsam (Aying, Germany), Jan Herrmann (Munich), Hans Aschauer (Munich) and Achim Knebel (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securely transmitting time-critical data within a communication system that includes local networks each having a switch and a plurality of terminals, a controller that controls functions of switches and terminals, and having a control ne...