ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,750, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Transmission system and transmission method for transmitting data and energy via a two-wire line" was invented by Johannes Deuse-Kleinsteuber (Detmold, Germany), Elmar Schaper (Luedge, Germany), Peter Scholz (Brakel, Germany) and Christian Reinhold (Hameln, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a transmission system for transmitting data and energy, with a master-module, at least one slave-module, and a two-wire line between the master-module and the slave-module for bidirectional data transmission between the master-module and the...