ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,736, issued on July 28, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Interface for a core process control system" was invented by Anders Trosten (Vasteras, Sweden), Magnus Wahlstrom (Vasteras, Sweden), Nils Vabulis (Vasteras, Sweden) and Magne Hansen (Eskilstuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of executing a request to an industrial control system, which runs in a protected domain and is configured to control one or more field devices. Each step of the method is to be executed on processing resources of a cloud domain (CD), an edge domain (ED) or the protected domain. According to the first aspect, a step of ...