US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 8 for "System and computer-implemented method to generate a configuration for external datapoint access" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,654, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"System and computer-implemented method to generate a configuration for external datapoint access" was invented by Johannes Frank (Meerbusch, Germany) and Ingo Thon (Grasbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for generating a configuration for external datapoint access is provided, whereby the configuration includes at least one datapoint within an automation system, including: a) searching for and capturing at least one input and/or output field; b) extracting annotation data near to a visualized automation process value in a found I/O-...