US Patent Issued to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH on Aug. 25 for "Circuit with switch for discharging capacitive elements connected to a safety-related digital input" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,936, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (Minden, Germany).

"Circuit with switch for discharging capacitive elements connected to a safety-related digital input" was invented by Karl Heckemann (Minden, Germany), Torsten Meyer (Pennigsehl, Germany) and Christian Voss (Minden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit is provided that has a safety-related digital input and an input circuit downstream of the safety-related digital input. The input circuit has a comparator circuit connected to the safety-related digital input and arranged to output a first value when a voltage applied to the compara...