US Patent Issued to Pilz on July 21 for "Process data exchange with guaranteed minimum transmission intervals" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,828, issued on July 21, was assigned to Pilz GmbH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).

"Process data exchange with guaranteed minimum transmission intervals" was invented by Frank von Haugwitz (Ostfildern, Germany), Christian Adams (Ostfildern, Germany) and Stefan Wohrle (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes first and second control modules. The first control module is configured to generate process data at t1, send the process data to the second control module via a communication channel, receive a response to the process data, and process the process data at t4. The second control module is config...