US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 12 for "Network switch, communication system and method for operating a communication system for transmitting time-critical data" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,525, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Network switch, communication system and method for operating a communication system for transmitting time-critical data" was invented by Markus Neumann (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for operating a communication system for transmitting time-critical data, wherein the datagrams are forwarded from a first communication device to a first network switch based on an identifier of a first virtual local network and a priority specification, where the first network switch encapsulates the datagrams sent by the first communication device in respective dat...