US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 21 for "Method for detecting system problems in a distributed control system and a method for allocating foglets in a fog network" (Swiss, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,152, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Method for detecting system problems in a distributed control system and a method for allocating foglets in a fog network" was invented by Raphael Eidenbenz (Zurich, Switzerland), Mallikarjun Kande (Solon, Ohio), Andrea Macauda (Genoa, Italy), Alexandru Moga (Thalwil, Switzerland), Robert Birke (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Thanikesavan Sivanthi (Wurenlingen, Switzerland), David Kozhaya (Dietikon, Switzerland) and Ognjen Vukovic (Dietikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting system problems in a distributed control system including...