ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,324, issued on April 8, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH (Minden, Germany).

"Configuration data caching" was invented by Jonathan Jansen (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output module having a housing to connect the I/O module to a first module, an interface configured to exchange data with the first module, and a memory. The I/O module is set up to receive and/or store data, from which data information can be derived with regard to a configuration of the first module and to make this information available to a second module upon request."

The patent was filed on Feb. 2, 2022, under Applicatio...