ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,949, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Method and arrangement for commissioning an updated application for an industrial automation arrangement" was invented by Jan Gotz (Buckenhof, Germany) and Jurgen Reichmann (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and arrangement for commissioning an updated application for an industrial automation arrangement, wherein a first, existing application on a first controller and the updated application on a test device are executed in parallel, where local software (in particular a proxy service (proxy)) writes sensor data to the process image of a separate test device, ...