ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,276, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apprentice FS Inc. (Port Jefferson Station, N.J.).

"System for remote operation of non-networked production equipment units" was invented by Frank Maggiore (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a system includes: a chassis located over a physical user interface of a production equipment unit that includes a set of physical input fields; a set of actuators coupled to the chassis; a selector manipulated by the set of actuators and interfacing with the set of physical input fields; a communication module configured to receive a command-corresponding to a virtu...