ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,204,317, issued on Jan. 21, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Industrial data services platform" was invented by Joachim Thomsen (Krefeld, Germany), Stephen C. Briant (Wexford, Pa.), Manuel Sukerman (Burr Ridge, Ill.), Juergen K. Weinhofer (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Sujeet Chand (Milwaukee), Scott A. Miller (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Noel Henderson (Houston, Fla.) and Bruce E. Hammon (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud-based industrial data services (IDS) architecture leverage smart tags, asset models, and data service applications to facilitate secure transaction an...