ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,818, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HIRSCHMANN AUTOMATION AND CONTROL GMBH (Neckartenzlingen, Germany).
"Method of operating a network" was invented by Arne Kaufmann (Metzingen, Germany), Lukas Bechtel (Stuttgart, Germany) and Rene Hummen (Wendlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is proposed for operating a network with multiple subscribers in the network. For this purpose, a network having at least one switch (20, 21), at least two terminals (10, 11, 12) and a controller (30) is provided. According to the invention, one of the subscribers now sends and/or receives data to another subscriber via an application ...