ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,306, issued on March 11.
"Abstraction of PLC communication" was invented by Manuel Schlemelch (Erlangen, Germany), Florian Ersch (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Hartmut Ludwig (West Windsor, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current approaches to integrating industrial ecosystems, for instance integrating automation functions across different vendors of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), lack efficiencies and capabilities. In an example aspect, a consumer, for instance a PLC, can poll PLCs for an automation function. In response to the polling, a first PLC that includes a memory defining a plurality of dedicated memory areas, can retri...