US Patent Issued to Siemens on June 10 for "Method for avoiding function disablements for intelligent electronic units" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,183, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for avoiding function disablements for intelligent electronic units" was invented by Andrej Gorbing (Berlin), Ji Chen (Nanjing, China), Stefan Flemming (Rosstal-Buchschwabach, Germany), Igor Kogan (Berlin) and Oliver Lindner (Finowfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for avoiding function disablements of intelligent electronic units IEDs that are connected in a local network which has at least two timing units. One of the timing units assumes an active grandmaster role as a synchronization source while the other timing units remain in their slave st...