US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on March 11 for "Method for data processing and programmable logic controller" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,809, issued on March 11, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for data processing and programmable logic controller" was invented by Robin Vogt (Borchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data processing on a programmable logic controller (PLC) having a control task comprising a plurality of executable programs, where at least two programs of the control task each have at least one parallel processing section comprising a work package having a plurality of subtasks. The parallel processing sections in the respective programs are assigned predetermined priority levels, which are inserted...