ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,409, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Field device configuration tool" was invented by Dirk Wagener (Stadthagen, Germany), Christoph Welte (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Christian Fahrenholz (Memmingen, Germany) and Marcus Heege (Kaisersesch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field device configuration tool includes: a user interface; a processing unit; and a memory. The processing unit controls the user interface to present information for a parameter of a field device on a display of the user interface. The user interface enables a user of the field device to input a semantic identification ID for...