US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 16 for "Computer-implemented method for configuring a component with an OPC UA server in an industrial plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,170, issued on June 16, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Computer-implemented method for configuring a component with an OPC UA server in an industrial plant" was invented by Roland Braun (Niederkassel Lulsdorf, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany), Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany) and Nafise Eskandani (Rossdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a component includes selecting a Server of the component by a Client of a mapping tool; receiving by the Client a data model that includes a list of attributes; retrieving from a database a list of parameters of the component; retri...