ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,251, issued on March 24, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).
"Method for the distributed calculation of computational tasks" was invented by Michael Harnischfeger (Moembris, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for the distributed calculation of calculation tasks by means of field devices of an industrial plant, wherein a plurality of field devices are coupled to a task distribution unit by means of a data link, the field devices effect a control of the industrial plant in an operating state in each case, at least one of the field devices receives a calcula...