US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Feb. 4 for "Messaging protocol for configuring remote terminal unit" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,817, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Messaging protocol for configuring remote terminal unit" was invented by Stephen Richard Owen Beadle (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system for configuring a remote terminal unit (RTU) device of a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system. The RTU device transmits an initial message payload to a SCADA server of the SCADA system via a broker server in accordance with a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) messaging protocol. The initial message payload complies with a Sparkplug specifica...