US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on March 3 for "Apparatus for processing signals between a controller and field devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,690, issued on March 3, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Apparatus for processing signals between a controller and field devices" was invented by Elmar Schaper (Luegde, Germany), Carsten Thoerner (Melle, Germany), Christoph Leifer (Bad Driburg, Germany), Felix Schulte (Geseke, Germany) and Benjamin Klimmek (Aerzen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing signals transmitted between a controller and one field device or multiple field devices includes: a carrier having a control interface, a field interface, and one slot or multiple slots, the control interface being for con...