ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,851, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SOFTWARE DEFINED AUTOMATION GMBH (Garching bei Muenchen, Germany).

"Cloud computing system, method and computer program" was invented by Josef Waltl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring a controller of an industrial automation system via a network includes obtaining, by a cloud computing system, a controller configuration and a controller program. The cloud computing system generates, based on the obtained controller configuration and the obtained controller program, a compile time representation of the controller allowing modification of the controller program and ...