ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,776, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).
"Polling scheme in an industrial network system" was invented by Caijin Wang (Singapore) and Ashwani Singh (L'Isle d'Espagnac, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For polling communication devices in a communication system including a host device and communication devices. The host device is connected to the communication devices via a clock line for transmitting a clock signal to the communication devices and via an arbitration line implemented with "AND" logic for receiving arbitration signal transmitted by the communication devic...