US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 7 for "Field device and functional unit for the field device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,096, issued on July 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Field device and functional unit for the field device" was invented by Wolfgang Ens (Linkenheim, Germany), Slava Friesen (Rulzheim, Germany) and Robin Pramanik (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device includes functional units and an energy supply, wherein the sum of consumed energy of all functional units is greater than the maximum energy suppliable to the field device from the energy supply, where priority is assignable to at least two functional units, a higher priority functional unit influences the energy consumption of a lower priority functio...