ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,954, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"System and method for aggregating data in a remote address space" was invented by Roland Braun (Niederkassel, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany) and Julius Rueckert (Langen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) aggregation server for aggregating at least one OPC UA server in a remote address space is described. The at least one OPC UA aggregation server is configured to support data reduction and/or redundancy mechanisms."

The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2022, under Application No...