US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Oct. 7 for "Non-MTP module integration" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,913, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Non-MTP module integration" was invented by Mario Hoernicke (Landau, Germany) and Katharina Stark (Weinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for non-MTP module integration includes receiving by a wrapper unit logic signals, bus signals and material signals from a non-MTP module, wherein the non-MTP module is a physical module of a process plant, wherein the logic signals comprise information of logic connections and/or functions of the non-MTP module, wherein the bus signals comprise information of outputs of a fieldbus of the non-MTP module, ...