US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 5 for "Method for configuring a communication network for the cyclical transmission of messages" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,368, issued on May 5, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for configuring a communication network for the cyclical transmission of messages" was invented by Thomas Fischer (Erlangen, Germany), Stephan Home (Schwabach, Germany), Konstantin Jung (Feucht, Germany), Sven Kerschbaum (Furth, Germany), Marcel KieBling (Bayern, Germany) and Frank Volkmann (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for configuring an industrial real-time-capable communications network for the cyclical transmitting of messages (NWM), each comprising one or more data sets (DS1.., DS4). The communications network ...