ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,623, issued on June 17, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Method for modifying a control software of an automation system" was invented by Henning Mersch (Verl, Germany) and Birger Evenburg (Selmsdorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for modifying control software of an automation system having a controller and a plurality of subscribers, where the subscribers are connected to the controller via a data bus and communicate via a data exchange, at least one subscriber is a software subscriber for modifying control software of the controller, and the software subscriber comprises a memory unit on...