ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,026, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"System and method for device profile creation in an integrated development environment" was invented by Thomas Kazushige Sugimoto (Solon, Ohio), Qin Cheng Jin (Liaoning, China) and Wang Zhen (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) is extended to support creation of device profiles using an intuitive graphical development environment. The environment comprises a device profile development interface that allows a user to select device profile views to be included in a devi...