US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 27 for "Location-based operating of devices in an industrial plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,288, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Location-based operating of devices in an industrial plant" was invented by Dirk Schulz (Meckenheim, Germany), Thomas Gamer (Bruhl, Germany), Philipp Bauer (Weinheim, Germany) and Francisco Mendoza (Laudenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (100) for operating a plurality of devices (21-25) in an industrial plant (1), comprising the steps of: -obtaining (110) at least the location (21a) of a to-be-controlled device (21) within the industrial plant (1); -obtaining (120) at least the locations (22a-25a) of other devices ...