ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,497, issued on April 21, was assigned to Neutrik AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Integrated module for an apparatus from lighting, sound, video or special effects engineering for providing control by means of an ethernet connection" was invented by Christian Sohnel (Gofis, Austria) and Florian Burtscher (Schlins, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ethernet device connector built-in module for a controllable apparatus from lighting, sound, video or special effects engineering, for incorporating the apparatus in a chain of apparatuses serially connected by ethernet. The construction of the built-in module allows serial control of ...