US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for coordinating insertion and/or removal of redundant input/output (I/O) components" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,917, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for coordinating insertion and/or removal of redundant input/output (I/O) components" was invented by Alex W. Stephens (Painesville, Ohio) and Joshua B. Boroff (Lyndhurst, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory, computer-readable medium includes computer-executable instructions that, when executed, by one or more processors associated with a first input/output (I/O) component in an industrial automation system, cause the processors to perform operations. The first I/O component may operate in a si...