ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,282, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Modularly assembled automation system" was invented by Andreas Traub (Amberg, Germany), Michael Braunlich (Chemnitz, Germany), Christian Auerswald (Chemnitz, Germany), Stefan Holtz (Leipzig, Germany), Frantisek Zurek (Chemnitz, Germany) and Lydia Rowena Braeuning (Chemnitz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modularly assembled automation system includes a main unit with a plug-in bus port connector, a plurality of modules each with a plug-in bus connector and a plug-in signal connector, a backplane bus board in a layered structure with bus conductor tracks, a mother...