ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,525, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ATLAS COPCO INDUSTRIAL TECHNIQUE AB (Stockholm).

"Connecting a group of industrial tools to a plurality of controllers using shared single virtual IP address and identifiers" was invented by Erik Olof Johansson (Alta, Sweden) and Robert Mikael Andersson (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method of a network device of connecting a group of industrial tools to a plurality of controllers, and a network device performing the method. In an aspect, a method of a network device of connecting a group of industrial tools to a plurality of controllers. The method com...