US Patent Issued to Krohne on Oct. 6 for "Method for initiating a communication link between a field device and a control unit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,231, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Krohne S.A.S. (Romans-sur-Isere Cedex, France).

"Method for initiating a communication link between a field device and a control unit" was invented by Olivier Dubray (Chatuzange-le-Goubet, France), Denis Lambert (Saint Bardoux, France), Florian Chanal (Saint Barthelemy de Vals, France) and Fabrice Marcel (Saint Peray, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initializing a communication link between a field device and a control unit according to a communication protocol is described. The communication protocol defines a broadcasting message with a data area. From the field device, a bro...