US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on June 23 for "Load distribution and high availability over ethernet advanced physical layer" (Wyoming, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,850, issued on June 23, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxborough, Mass.).

"Load distribution and high availability over ethernet advanced physical layer" was invented by Richard Allan Chaney (Canterbury, N.H.), Mark V. Bertolina (Milton, Mass.), Briane Ritchie (Bellingham, Mass.) and Larry K. Brown (Casper, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL) bridge system between an edge field device and an industrial network. The bridge system includes at least one Ethernet-APL switch and a plurality of redundant physical Ethernet-APL 10BaseT1L ports coupled to the at least o...