ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,285, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Pre-configured templates and queries for storyboards" was invented by Sarat Shankar (Bengaluru, India), Thomas Keller (Moenchengladbach, Germany), Sachin M. Jain (Pune, India) and Anuradha M. Sardesai (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a first input indicative of a request to generate a storyboard including one or more visualizations associated with opera...