US Patent Issued to Schneider Electric Industries on March 24 for "Software defined automation system and architecture" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,256, issued on March 24, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmasion, France).

"Software defined automation system and architecture" was invented by Antonio Chauvet (Carros, France), Philippe Wilhelm (Andover, Mass.), Merrill Harriman (Andover, Mass.), Eric Alfano (Andover, Mass.), Alen Mehmedagic (Wilmington, Mass.), Andrew Lee David Kling (Salem, Mass.), David Doggett (Andover, Mass.), Vijay Vallala (Andover, Mass.) and Philippe Nappey (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a software defined automation system that provides a reference architecture for designing, managing and maintai...