ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,318, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VusionGroup GmbH (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).

"Bus system and support device comprising such a bus system" was invented by Andreas Rossl (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus system, a shelf edge strip bus system in particular, which comprises a first line for determining an electric reference potential, a second line for providing a supply voltage with a desired value in relation to the reference potential, at least one third line, preferably a single third line, for communication of signals and/or data, a supply device, which is electrically conductively connected to t...