ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,937, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Inductive Automation LLC (Folsom, Calif.).

"Hierarchical data binding for industrial control systems" was invented by Carl Reuben Gould (Folsom, Calif.) and Perry Linn Arellano-Jones (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides a design interface for designing and implementing graphical user interfaces that users can access through web browsers. Depending on the configuration of the graphical user interfaces, the users may be able to monitor and control industrial processes by interacting with components that correspond to the industrial processes as displayed in user in...