ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,631, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to BEIJER ELECTRONICS AB (Malmo, Sweden).

"Configuring an industrial automation system for internet-of-things accessibility" was invented by Tommy Hakansson (Loddekopinge, Sweden) and Mats Carlsson (Veberod, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring an industrial automation system for internet-of-things accessibility involves a computing device which a) receives a first user input indicative of a functional object representing one or more low-level devices and/or automation devices and/or supervising and production control devices. The computing device also b) receives) a seco...