ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,922, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Industrial plant and method for graphically representing synchronous relationships" was invented by Piotr Jarosz (Chemnitz, Germany), Ronny Klier (Chemnitz, Germany), Thomas Scherf (Lichtenau, Germany) and Sven Schneider (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial plant and method for graphically representing synchronous relationships, wherein the industrial plant includes a first control device in which a first user program executes, a second control device in which a second user program executes, and a plurality of drives which are controlled and/or r...