ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,007, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Programmable logic controller with voice control" was invented by Dominik Franz (HaBloch, Germany) and Andreas Wilmers (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A programmable logic controller (PLC) with voice control includes a CPU configured to run an application program, a condition monitoring system (CMS) configured to provide condition data of an industrial unit, a microphone input for providing microphone data, the microphone input connected with the CMS, which is configured to receive the microphone data, determine an audio file using the r...