ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,453, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Graphical and text based co-design editor for industrial automation projects" was invented by Andrew R. Stump (Mentor, Ohio), Anthony Carrara (Strongsville, Ohio), Adam Gregory (Oak Creek, Wis.), Lorenzo Majewski (Milwaukee), Eashwer Srinivasan (Fremont, Ohio), Srdjan Josipovic (Beachwood, Ohio), Omar A Bahader (Solon, Ohio), Christopher Edward Stanek (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Michael J Coan (Mentor, Ohio), Douglas B Sumerauer (Concord, Ohio) and Ryan P Dunn (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial IDE su...