ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,827, issued on May 26, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Visual interlock specification for industrial automation" was invented by Heiko Koziolek (Karlsruhe, Germany), Andreas Burger (Weingarten, Germany), Marie Christin Platenius-Mohr (Hirschberg an der BergstraBe, Germany), Hadil Abukwaik (Weinheim, Germany) and Julius Rueckert (Langen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for visualizing a rule of an industrial process includes providing a topology model of the industrial process, wherein the industrial process comprises at least one sensor and at least one actuator; attributing the topology model wit...