ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,457, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Fault-managed power via black-channel safety protocol" was invented by Scott Griffiths (Port Washington, Wis.) and David D. Brandt (New Berlin, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to fault-managed power, and particularly, to generating fault-managed power in an industrial automation environment using single-pair Ethernet cabling. A fault-managed power system may include transmitter circuitry and receiver circuitry coupled together via a transmission link formed using single-pair Ethernet cable. The t...