ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,402, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Automation module with an adapter" was invented by Ulf Stein (Schwandorf, Germany), Alexander Schmidt (Wiesbaden, Germany) and Martin Bergmann (Schnaittenbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automation module includes a housing that has a front and rear sides, top and lower sides and a left and right sides, wherein a printed circuit board is arranged within the housing parallel between the left and right sides of the housing, the lower and top sides are formed at least as a ventilation grid to enable cooling inside the housing, where a first plug connector is ar...