ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,823, issued on March 11, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft MBH (Minden, Germany).

"Electronic device and communication unit" was invented by Philipp Neugebauer (Bueckeburg, Germany) and Stefan Wagner (Hille, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical energy supply device for supplying electrical energy to electrical components from an energy source, the energy supply device including at least one program memory with a computer program stored therein, and a computer for running the computer program, the computer program including software control functions for controlling power supply functions of the energy supp...