ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,948, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method and system for providing time-critical control applications" was invented by Rainer Schiekofer (Nuremberg, Germany) and Franz-Josef Gotz (Heideck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for providing time-critical control applications via flow control components that are each loadable into and executable by a flow control environment formed via a server device, wherein the control applications each periodically determine, from periodically acquired measured and/or state variables, manipulated variables for a process to be controlled or regulated, a...