US Patent Issued to Siemens on Oct. 20 for "Method, devices, computer program and computer-readable medium for using configurable logic for modular setup of a technical installation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,273, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method, devices, computer program and computer-readable medium for using configurable logic for modular setup of a technical installation" was invented by Andreas Stutz (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany) and Mathias Maurmaier (Gerlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional module includes at least one technical object for performing a technical process, a control unit which control the technical object based on previously determined rules and interconnections that are being permanently stored in the control unit, a communication unit which interchanges dat...