US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Systems USA on March 3 for "CAN-FD redundancy for high availability industrial I/O subsystems" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,994, issued on March 3, was assigned to Schneider Electric Systems USA Inc. (Foxborough, Mass.).

"CAN-FD redundancy for high availability industrial I/O subsystems" was invented by Kevin Kimber (Yate, Great Britain) and Matthew Caperon (Worthing, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Controller Area Network with Flexible Data Rate (CAN-FD) system and method providing high availability, redundant process control I/O. A server device coupled to dual CAN-FD busses generates a SYNC message designating one of the dual busses as active and another one as backup. The server device transmits the SYNC message on the active bus and then...