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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2021
Endress+hauser Flowtec Ag, Reinach, CH;
Sushil Siddesh, Basel, CH;
Johannes Sprenger, Lörrach, DE;
Jenish Gheewala, Basel, CH;
Matthias Brenzinger, Staufen, DE;
Karl Büttner, Neuenburg, DE;
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG, Reinach, CH;
Abstract
An automation technology field device includes operating electronics and a plurality of parameters. The operating electronics are designed to operate the field device based on the parameters and obtain and process data based on the parameters. A firmware is a software container allocated to the operating electronics. The software container is designed to execute the installed code to establish, using the code, a communication connection to a distributed ledger via at least one of the outputs is a higher-level communication network, to integrate the field device in the distributed ledger-and to process and/or combine at least one part of the obtained and processed data into result data and to transmit the result data to the distributed ledger.
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