US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 21 for "Process control system, apparatus and method for control of a process plant" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,830, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Process control system, apparatus and method for control of a process plant" was invented by Maximilian Walter (Nuremberg, Germany) and Ulrich Taschke (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for controlling a process plant in which a number of control processes are performed on common hardware, wherein encoded process variables are encoded in each of the control processes based on signatures that are defined individually in each of the control processes."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/342,901.

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