US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on July 14 for "Modular machine-automation system and client module" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,831, issued on July 14, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Modular machine-automation system and client module" was invented by Patrick Jebramcik (Gutersloh, Germany), Sebastian Sicken (Lichtenau-Holtheim, Germany), Armin Pehlivan (Nuziders, Austria), Thomas Morscher (Vienna), Christoph Zech (Modling, Austria), Peter Fischer (Hartberg, Austria), Peter Kastler (Vienna), Milos Winter (Vienna) and Christoph Egger (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular machine-automation system includes a server module and a plurality of client modules. Each client module includes a housing having a first client module c...