US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Dec. 16 for "Method of configuring a specific field device utilizing an original open platform communications unified architecture server" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,953, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method of configuring a specific field device utilizing an original open platform communications unified architecture server" was invented by Dirk Wagener (Stadthagen, Germany), Christian Fahrenholz (Memmingen, Germany), Christoph Welte (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Marcus Heege (Kaisersesch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a field device includes identifying an original Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) server provided for a field device of the same type; creating a data set of values of parameters of the or...