US Patent Issued to Siemens on July 8 for "Method and arrangement for determining neighborhood relationships between an actuator and sensors in an installation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,201, issued on July 8, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and arrangement for determining neighborhood relationships between an actuator and sensors in an installation" was invented by Martin Augustin (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Stefan Luder (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining neighborhood relationships between an actuator and sensors that interact with the an actuator in an installation for controlling a technical process and that communicate with the actuator, wherein the actuator influences the process and the sensors capture measured values of process variables, where the actuator inf...