ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,590, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Industrial automation information contextualization method and system" was invented by Joachim Thomsen (Karlsruhe, Germany), Steven C. Briant (Moon Township, Pa.), Noel Henderson (Milton, Fla.) and Brian Fast (Kirtland, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial data presentation system leverages structured data types defined on industrial devices to generate and deliver meaningful presentations of industrial data. Industrial devices are configured to support structured data types referred to as basic information data types (...