US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on May 13 for "Conflict resolution method for a remotely controlled device and conflict resolution system" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,481, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Conflict resolution method for a remotely controlled device and conflict resolution system" was invented by Roman Schlegel (Wettingen, Switzerland) and Thomas Locher (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conflict resolution method for a remotely controlled device is provided. The method includes: issuing a command for the device by a remote control center or by the device; determining a criticality level of the command; depending on the criticality level of the command, sending the command to the other one of the device and the control center for acknowle...