US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Feb. 18 for "System and method for interoperable communication of an automation system component with multiple information sources" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,918, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"System and method for interoperable communication of an automation system component with multiple information sources" was invented by Somayeh Malakuti (Dossenheim, Germany), Johannes Schmitt (Ladenburg, Germany) and Prerna Juhlin (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system for interoperable data exchange between a plurality of information systems via a digital representation service associated with a digital representation of a physical device with each information system being at least one of an information source and an informat...