ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,610, issued on June 17, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Method for updating a control program of an automation system with data migration of a program state of the control program" was invented by Ralf Dreesen (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a control program of an automation system with data migration of a program state of the control program is provided. The method comprises generating a first migration function for mapping a first data element to a second data element, interrupting a cyclic execution of a first control program, determining a value of the first data...