ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,082, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TURCK Holding GmbH (Halver, Germany).

"Connection element for producing a wired connection between a first and second unit" was invented by Hermann Schwagmann (Detmold, Germany), Thomas Kriegel (Ludenscheid, Germany) and Dirk Mantei (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to a system including a connection element for producing a wired connection between a first unit and a second unit, the connection element comprising a diagnostic module; wherein the diagnostic module comprises: a receiving interface, which is set up to receive data from the first un...