ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,346, issued on April 14, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Minden, Germany).
"Status signal output" was invented by Daniel Jerolm (Bad Essen, Germany), Hans-Herbert Kirste (Minden, Germany), Frank Schadde (Luebbecke, Germany) and Gerald Huse (Loehne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, and a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master. The dat...