ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,326, issued on March 18, was assigned to Applied Information Inc. (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for transferring data between industrial data polling systems and event-based field devices" was invented by Bryan Patrick Mulligan (Suwanee, Ga.), Iain Jeffrey Mulligan (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Kyle Williams (Cape Town, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for receiving field data associated with industrial equipment from one or more field devices operating under an event-based data transmission schema to, storing the field data at a remote computing system, receiving a req...