ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,699, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for providing control applications for an industrial automation system" was invented by Christian Peter Feist (Munich) and Harald Albrecht (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing control applications, wherein each of the control applications is provided by a flow control component, which is loadable onto a flow control environment formed via a server device and that is executed thereon, where control applications that require selected security authorizations are assigned a respective label as security-critical control a...