ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,973, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Induced voltage-based control of a sensor network" was invented by Ulf Bormann (Altdorf, Germany), Dirk Scheibner (Nuremberg, Germany), Jurgen Schimmer (Nuremberg, Germany), Dominik Tacke (Heroldsberg, Germany) and Michael Villnow (Deutschland, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for controlling a sensor network (2) having sensor nodes (3) of a technical system (1). The method comprises the following steps: deactivating (S1) the sensor nodes (3) of the sensor network (2); determining (S2) an induction voltage (Ue) in a coil (4) of the s...