US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Systems USA, Schneider Electric USA on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for network device discovery over ethernet advanced physical layer" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,610, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Schneider Electric Systems USA Inc. (Foxboro, Mass.) and Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Andover, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for network device discovery over ethernet advanced physical layer" was invented by Briane Ritchie (Foxboro, Mass.) and Ling Wu (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic discovery of a Field Device during initial commissioning includes registering a Media Access Control (MAC) address of the Field Device with a Distributed Control System (DCS), and registering the Field Device with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server. An IP addres...