ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,966, issued on April 15, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Device configuration object template with user interaction for device properties generator" was invented by Thomas Kazushige Sugimoto (Solon, Ohio), Qin Cheng Jin (Liaoning, China) and Wang Zhen (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports the use of graphical device profiles to configure device parameters as part of an industrial control project. To allow an edit to first device represented by a first device profile to be applied easily to other device profiles, t...