ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,456, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Configuration of a modular plant" was invented by Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany), Ralf Jeske (Petershagen, Germany) and Joerg Schubert (Lehrte, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a control software configuration for a module of a modular plant, the method including, in a module engineering phase: receiving a user definition for the module; and automatically generating the control software configuration for the module based on the user definition, the automatically generating including: specifying parameters for the module that are...