US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 20 for "Field device for providing a sensor unit with energy from a network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,126, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Field device for providing a sensor unit with energy from a network" was invented by Michael Stragies (Gottingen, Germany), Georg Horst (Northeim, Germany) and Frank Wiederhold (Hofgeismar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device having first and second input terminals connected to first and second wires of a network; first and second output terminals connected to first and second wires of a sensor unit; a rectifier unit having a first part arranged between the first input terminal and a first node and a second part arranged between the second...