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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2023
Applicant:
Schneider Electric Systems Usa, Inc., Foxborough, MA (US);
Inventors:
Richard Allan Chaney, Canterbury, NH (US);
Mark V. Bertolina, Milton, MA (US);
Briane Ritchie, Bellingham, MA (US);
Larry K. Brown, Casper, WY (US);
Assignee:
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA, INC., Foxborough, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 12/10 (2006.01); H04L 41/0803 (2022.01); H04L 47/125 (2022.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 47/125 (2013.01); H04L 12/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
An Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL) bridge system between an edge field device and an industrial network. The bridge system includes at least one Ethernet-APL switch and a plurality of redundant physical Ethernet-APL 10BaseT1L ports coupled to the at least one switch providing improved load distribution and high availability.