ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,134, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Automation controller and method for operating the automation controller" was invented by Ronny Hog (Kummersbruck, Germany), Andre Kamp (Baiersdorf, Germany), Sebastian Schotz (Hahnbach, Germany), Markus Walter (Bamberg, Germany) and Ulrich-Volker Lang (Heroldsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automation controller and method for operating the automation controller, wherein the automation controller includes Ethernet channels to which network interfaces can be assigned via a first register with a first register value and a second register with a second register ...