ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,311, issued on June 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Output module and method for operating the module" was invented by Peter Fischer (Schwandorf, Germany) and Fabian Dehling (Edelsfeld, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output module includes an output for switching a load and includes a switch that switches a switching voltage to the output to cause a load current to flow, wherein the module includes a measuring device that provides a monitoring signal profile that maps a signal profile of the load current based on the switching voltage, an analyzer that compares, at least at points, the monitoring signal profile w...