ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,229, issued on July 1, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for automated loop checking" was invented by Chetan Prahlada Rao (Bangalore, India), Nagaraju Maleppagari (Anantappur, India), Sathesh Venkatachalam (Namakkal, India), Rahul De (Bangalore, India), Ananda H (Bangalore, India), Varun Prabhakar (Bangalore, India), Dawa Ongpo Pakimo (Bengalore, India) and Sathya Muthu Mani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for the automated checking of I/O loops of a process automation system is disclosed that includes a dongle configured to be installed on a termina...