ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,972, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Intelligent device extension for building software applications" was invented by Francesco Bleve (Milltown, N.J.), Holger Strobel (Steinbach, Germany) and Szofia Fazekas-Zisch (Ohningen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for building an application image on a target device of an industrial automation system is disclosed. The target device includes an internal storage medium organized into one or more logical volumes. The method includes identifying an external storage device connected to the target device. The method further includes exte...