US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on July 14 for "Gateways for connecting data-driven control systems to OPC UA entities" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,465, issued on July 14, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Gateways for connecting data-driven control systems to OPC UA entities" was invented by Roland Braun (Niederkassel, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany), Katharina Stark (Weinheim, Germany), Nicolai Schoch (Heidelberg, Germany) and Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first gateway device for connecting an OPC UA client to a data-driven controller and/or control system includes a first interface implementing an OPC UA server and is configured to receive, from the OPC UA client, at least one call to invoke an OPC UA metho...