ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,899, issued on July 15, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).
"Time synchronization in industrial system" was invented by William Afshari (Saint-Paul de Vence, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial system for controlling backplane communication, including: a cluster manager including a primary switch linked to a primary control module, at least one Input/Output, I/O, module including a secondary switch linked to a secondary control module, a unidirectional communication line linking the cluster manager to the at least one IO module through passive base plates, wherein the cluster m...