ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,728, issued on May 13, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Modular automation support system" was invented by Nicolai Schoch (Heidelberg, Germany), Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany) and Katharina Stark (Weinheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular automation support system for modular plants includes an engineering support system comprising a control and execution engine configured to: receive data from a monitoring infrastructure of a modular plant and convert that data into semantic data which conforms to a semantic data model; use one or more semantic rules or mechanisms relating the semantic data r...