US Patent Issued to Siemens on Feb. 3 for "Module with selectable digital outputs" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,554, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Module with selectable digital outputs" was invented by William Keith Bryant (Johnson City, Tenn.), James Allen Knoop (Flag Pond, Tenn.) and Michael O'Leary (Johnson City, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module includes one or more output channels, wherein each output channel is configured to transmit digital output signals, wherein each output channel comprises switching devices and a load is connectable between the switching devices, and wherein each output channel is individually configurable to operate according to a first output type or a second output type."

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