US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 20 for "I/O station storing configuration data" (Swedish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,680, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"I/O station storing configuration data" was invented by Robert Norberg (Eskilstuna, Sweden), Johan Wennerberg (Vasteras, Sweden), Stefan Pook (Minden, Germany) and Ralf Jeske (Petershagen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an I/O station, connected with a plurality of network devices in an automation system. The station comprises a plurality of I/O modules, each I/O module providing one or more I/O channels connecting respective one or more field device(s). The station also comprises an I/O network interface for forwar...