ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,984, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Industrial automation edge as a service" was invented by Chirayu S Shah (Milwaukee), Jennifer M Kite (Saint Francis, Wis.), James Michael Teal (New Brunswick, N.J.) and Bruce McCleave Jr. (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based edge-as-as-service (EaaS) system allows edge gateways to be easily configured and deployed on the cloud for collection, contextualization, and egress of industrial data to downstream applications, including analytic applications, work order management systems, or visualization sy...