US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Systems USA on Sept. 1 for "Providing optical and radio frequency information in ethernet advanced physical layer based end point field devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,493, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schneider Electric Systems USA Inc. (Foxborough, Mass.).

"Providing optical and radio frequency information in ethernet advanced physical layer based end point field devices" was invented by Jeffrey Mattar (Foxboro, Mass.) and Mark Bertolina (Foxboro, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/methods for providing Ethernet-APL based end point field devices employ a protective enclosure that allows optical and radio frequency signals to pass through with little or no diffraction or attenuation. The disclosed Ethernet-APL based end point field device is advantageously able to use visual status...