ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,485, issued on June 2, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method for operating a device in an IoT system" was invented by Sebastian Thiem (Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany), Sascha Batz (Hemhofen, Germany) and Stefan Niessen (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a device is provided, hereinafter referred to as field device, in a system including an IoT platform. For simple connection of a further field device to an IoT platform and improved operation, provision is made for a database that stores connectivity data and further device data from field devices and that the IoT platform is able to access....