US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on June 9 for "Interface device for connecting process controllers to OPC UA peer devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,670, issued on June 9, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Interface device for connecting process controllers to OPC UA peer devices" was invented by Roland Braun (Niederkassel Lulsdorf, Germany) and Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for connecting a process controller to one or more peer devices includes providing a process controller interface for bidirectional communication; using a peer device interface for bidirectional OPC UA communication with the peer devices; and providing a logic unit that determines one or more to-be-performed actions from the one or more ...