ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,798, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Data models for defining data transmission workflow and facilitating data communication" was invented by Stephen C. Briant (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Deepa S. Bekal (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Sonal R. Dubey (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Sharath C. R. Baddam (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Joshua W. Buck (Northfield, Ohio), Dale A. Hawthorne (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Nicholas J. Marangoni (Peninsula, Ohio), Alexander B. Cherpakov (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Todd M. Smith (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Derrick Awuah (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Alexander K. Bergsneider (Mayfield Heights, Ohio) and Jon...