US Patent Issued to Siemens on June 30 for "Apparatus, automation system and method for coupling a device network and a communication network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,804, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Apparatus, automation system and method for coupling a device network and a communication network" was invented by Maximilian Walter (Nuremberg, Germany), Stephan Home (Schwabach, Germany) and Harald Albrecht (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automation system, apparatus and method for coupling a device network and a communication network, wherein the system verifies addressing of components in an automation system having a hyper-convergent infrastructure, where a gateway extends data telegrams to include a device-specific signature if such a signature can...