ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,686, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Automation system" was invented by Josef Papenfort (Hullhorst, Germany) and Henning Mersch (Verl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an automation system, a substitute server unit is configured to receive normal telegrams exchanged between a main server unit and a client unit. The functionality of the main server unit is continuously monitored. If a failure event of the main server unit is detected, the substitute server unit is configured to activate a failure operating mode, wherein the substitute server unit and the client unit exchange failu...