ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,989, issued on March 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Modeling and management of industrial network using OPCUA" was invented by Alen Mehmedagic (Wilmington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods/systems are provided for extending the capabilities of OPCUA to network devices that are otherwise configured and managed using NETCONF-YANG and SNMP-MIB protocols. The extension of OPCUA allows these devices to be described in network communications in the same manner as MIB or YANG. The systems/methods provide a CUC configured to request a TSN connection on the industrial network, the CUC including an OPCU...