US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Jan. 20 for "Communicating with field devices based on semantically identified variables" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,927, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Communicating with field devices based on semantically identified variables" was invented by Dirk Wagener (Stadthagen, Germany), Marcus Heege (Kaisersesch, Germany) and Christoph Welte (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a command to read a value of a variable from a field device, wherein the field device is designated by a field device identifier and the variable is designated by a semantic identifier; retrieving, from a ruleset, at least one rule indicating a dependency of the sought value of t...