US Patent Issued to Siemens on Dec. 16 for "Functional safety high-speed counter module including diagnostics circuitry for performing counter pattern test" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,006, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Functional safety high-speed counter module including diagnostics circuitry for performing counter pattern test" was invented by Jeffrey Howe (Johnson City, Tenn.), William Keith Bryant (Johnson City, Tenn.), Steven Parfitt (Johnson City, Tenn.), Steven M. Hausman (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Thomas Brian Hartley (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Functional Safety Counter Module is provided and it comprises input circuitry, test circuitry, a first microcontroller including a first hardware counter, a second hardware counter, a first storage device that sto...