ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,514, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Tag driven data pipelines in an industrial automation environment" was invented by Jordan C. Reynolds (Austin, Texas), John J. Hagerbaumer (Mequon, Wis.), Troy W. Mahr (Pleasant Prairie, Wis.), Thomas K. Jacobsen (Wake Forest, N.C.) and Giancarlo Scaturchio (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to industrial automation environments. More specifically, embodiments include systems and methods to surface data pipelines in an industrial automation environment. In som...