ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,913, issued on March 25, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Facade server" was invented by Roland Braun (Niederkassel, Germany), Thomas Gamer (Bruhl, Germany), Ralf Jeske (Petershagen, Germany), Anders Trosten (Vasteras, Sweden), Jeff Harding (Fort Myers, Fla.), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany) and Sten Gruener (Laudenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed at a facade server. The facade server provides a configurable facade having a configurable address space and serving as an interface for a client and to provide a mapping between the configurable address space of the fac...