ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,974, issued on June 30, was assigned to VEGA GRIESHABER KG (Wolfach, Germany).

"Method for parameterizing a field device for a connection establishment" was invented by Manfred Metzger (Haslach im Kinzigtal, Germany), Christian Hoferer (Offenburg, Germany) and Dominik Fehrenbach (Rottweil, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device having an integrated first chip card with a first set of parameters and an interface to a replaceable second chip card. The interface is arranged to receive a second set of parameters from the second chip card. The field device is arranged to establish a connection to a cloud service using the f...