US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 21 for "Zero-downtime upgrades of containerized programmable logic controller (plc) automation functions" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,027, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Zero-downtime upgrades of containerized programmable logic controller (plc) automation functions" was invented by Steffen Klepke (Munich) and Christoph Stuckjurgen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an automated method and system for upgrading an automation function controlling an actuator via a PLC (programmable logic controller), including: providing a first container and a first sidecar container, whereby the first container contains a first automation function, the first automation function is controlling the actuator via the PLC, providing a second co...