US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Feb. 11 for "Adapting data models for data communication to external platforms" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,706, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Adapting data models for data communication to external platforms" was invented by Dale A. Hawthorne (Rocky River, Ohio), Stephen C. Briant (Moon Township, Pa.) and Nicholas J. Marangoni (Peninsula, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter of a common gateway platform associated with an industrial automation system is described for communicating data acquired from various devices using a data model of the common gateway platform with external components using various data models. The computing device may determine a relation...