US Patent Issued to Phoenix Contact on April 7 for "Method for integrating into a data transmission a number of I/O modules connected to an I/O station, station head for carrying out a method of this type, and system having a station head of this type" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,662, issued on April 7, was assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Method for integrating into a data transmission a number of I/O modules connected to an I/O station, station head for carrying out a method of this type, and system having a station head of this type" was invented by Thorsten Matthies (Barntrup, Germany), Stefan Pollert (Espelkamp, Germany), Klaus Wessling (Buckeburg, Germany) and Carsten Henning (Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for integrating into a data transmission a number of I/O modules connected to an I/O station in accordance with a configuration ...