ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,818, issued on May 26, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"High availability redundant power module with I/O input monitoring" was invented by Stephen E. Denning (Silver Lake, Ohio), Christopher R. Dorr (University Heights, Ohio), Arun Kumar Shivaraman (Singapore) and Daniel E. Killian (Eastlake, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, including a first power conditioner module (PCM) configured to provide a first power output, wherein the first PCM includes a first plurality of input/output (TO) points configured to electrically couple to a plurality of terminals. The system also incl...