US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 2 for "Multi-tenant database replication and sharding" (Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,017, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Multi-tenant database replication and sharding" was invented by Daniel A. Vanbrocklin (Troy, Mich.), Matthew G. White (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Joshua Searles (Flushing, Mich.), Andrew M. Wilber (Franklin, Wis.), Jason W. Malzahn (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Alex G. Castle (Seattle), Michael J. Pantaleano (Milwaukee) and Jerry L. Foster (Goodrich, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant, cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) manufacturing platform offers a variety of industrial applications to end customers-including but...