US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 18 for "Engineering station and method for diagnosing a user program" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,292, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Engineering station and method for diagnosing a user program" was invented by Kai Gabel (Chemnitz, Germany), Wolfgang Horn (Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany), Piotr Jarosz (Chemnitz, Germany), Thomas Scherf (Lichtenau, Germany) and Sven Schneider (Chemnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for diagnosing a user program for controlling movement and positioning tasks of drives operated to execute a movement path of an apparatus, wherein the apparatus and movement path are depicted as a three-dimensional view in a first output element, to depict the movement pat...