ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,720, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hitachi Energy Ltd (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Method and supervisory system for monitoring performance of a decision-making logic of a controller" was invented by Adamantios Marinakis (Fislisbach, Switzerland), Yaman Cansin Evrenosoglu (Baden, Switzerland) and Ioannis Lymperopoulos (Dietikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performance of a decision-making logic of a controller of an industrial automation control system is monitored during field operation of the controller. A supervisory system receives operational data collected during field operation of the controller. The superviso...