ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,574, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TURCK Holding GmbH (Halver, Germany).

"Method for changing software data of a field device and a system comprising such a field device" was invented by Michael Bauer-Wesely (Grunhain Beierfeld, Germany) and Christian Seliger (Lauter-Bernsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for changing software data of a field device is disclosed. In an embodiment, the field device has, in or on a housing, a device code that can be optically detected using a mobile device. An embodiment of the method includes detecting a first device code with a reader unit of the mobile device, accessing primar...