US Patent Issued to McKesson on March 4 for "Programmable hardware proxy for assessment of control logic" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,885, issued on March 4, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Programmable hardware proxy for assessment of control logic" was invented by Philip Robinson (Norristown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for a programmable hardware proxy (PHP) for assessment of control logic. A control sequence that controls execution of an automation task within a physical automation system can be accessed to generate a virtual representation of physical control connections among sensor devices and a control device associated with an automation subsystem. The virtual representation constitutes a realistic virtual ...