US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on Sept. 9 for "Safety module for a safe drive control of a drive system in an automation system, drive system and automation system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,857, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Safety module for a safe drive control of a drive system in an automation system, drive system and automation system" was invented by Christopher Pohl (Verl, Germany), Andreas Kathofer (Rietberg, Germany), Frank Sieweke (Leopoldshohe, Germany) and Robert Zutz (Verl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety module for a secured drive control of an automated drive system is configured to receive encoder data sent from an encoder unit to a drive unit, based on an encoder protocol via a protocol active unit. The safety module is configured to forwa...