US Patent Issued to Siemens on May 13 for "High-availability cloud-based automation solution with optimized transmission times" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,744, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"High-availability cloud-based automation solution with optimized transmission times" was invented by Thomas Grosch (Rosstal, Germany), Albert Renschler (Ettlingen, Germany) and Jurgen Laforsch (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The real time capability is to be improved in a Cloud-based control system for an automation plant. To this end, a redundantly embodied, Cloud-based control system with a plurality of computing resources distributed over a network with control applications running thereon is proposed, which, embodied as a primary and backups, execute a con...