ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,163, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Pilz GmbH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).
"Method and system for detecting a configuration of a modular safety controller" was invented by Florian Rotzinger (Ostfildern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a configuration of a modular safety controller includes generating a digital image of a module block of the modular safety controller, and evaluating the digital image with an evaluation device using image recognition. A logic code is generated which is compared with a plurality of configuration codes in order to determine the current configuration of the modular safet...