US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Dec. 30 for "DC motor driven by class 4 fault-managed power integrated into a low-voltage drive" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,662, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"DC motor driven by class 4 fault-managed power integrated into a low-voltage drive" was invented by Scott Griffiths (Port Washington, Wis.), David D. Brandt (New Berlin, Wis.), Michael Cook (Mequon, Wis.), Arun Guru (Mequon, Wis.), Jon Vanderpas (Appleton, Wis.) and Robert Schmidt (Germantown, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to fault-managed power (FMP), and particularly, to generating FMP in an industrial automation environment using single-pair Ethernet (SPE) cabling for use by DC motors. An FM...