ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,083, issued on April 22, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method and system for automatic generation of a specification for an IT topology of a control system" was invented by Andreas Burger (Weingarten, Germany), Heiko Koziolek (Karlsruhe, Germany), Pablo Rodriguez (Ilvesheim, Germany) and Rhaban Hark (Weiterstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatic generation of a specification for an IT topology of a control system, the method comprising: creating a system structure from a machine-readable data defining production process requirements and generating specification data of the IT topolo...