US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 23 for "Spare robot controller" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,778, issued on June 23, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Spare robot controller" was invented by Goran Mustapic (Vasteras, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spare robot controller for replacing any one of a plurality of initial robot controllers configured to control operation of respective industrial robots includes a key storage storing a plurality of shared keys and a secure storage. The spare robot controller is configured to decrypt, using one of the shared keys, an encrypted backup copy of the initial robot controller to be replaced, and to store resulting data in the secure storage. In embodiments, t...