ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,947, issued on April 14, was assigned to R. STAHL SCHALTGERATE GMBH (Waldenburg, Germany).
"Network port circuit" was invented by Jorg Stritzelberger (Ohringen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a network port circuit which uses transceiver modules and which function according to various protocols and at various bit rates. The transceiver module having a low bit rate is connected in parallel with all two-wire ports. The transceiver modules which function according to a second network protocol and at a higher data rate are individually assigned to the individual two-wire ports. Independently of ...