ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,672, issued on June 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Control system method for controlling an apparatus or installation" was invented by Bernhard Quendt (Feucht, Germany) and Frank Dittrich Schiller (Nuremberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling an apparatus or installation, wherein at least one first safety function controls the apparatus or installation, where the control system includes a first safety-oriented control device that is configured to perform the at least one first safety function, where the first safety-oriented control device is also configured as a first safety-oriented co...