US Patent Issued to Turck Holding on March 17 for "Apparatus for connecting a field device to a control system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,092, issued on March 17, was assigned to Turck Holding GmbH (Halver, Germany).

"Apparatus for connecting a field device to a control system" was invented by Peter Strunkmann (Detmold, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for connecting a field device to a control system, the apparatus comprising a control interface for establishing a data connection to the control system; a field-device port for establishing a connection to the field device for data transmission and power transmission, the field-device port having at least three pins; a microprocessor; a physical layer for ground-referenced communication signals; and a f...