ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,510, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Universal data access across devices" was invented by Thomas Gruenewald (Somerset, N.J.), George Lo (Langhorne, Pa.), Florian Ersch (Plainsboro, N.J.), Hartmut Ludwig (West Windsor, N.J.) and Lingyun Wang (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing access to locally stored process image data to other devices in an industrial production environment includes a plurality of controller devices and a process image backbone. Each respective controller device comprises the following: a volatile computer-readable storage medium comprising a process image a...