ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,721, issued on June 10, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Extensible profiles for industrial controller devices" was invented by Anthony J Diblasio (Independence, Ohio), Scott A Pierce (Concord Township, Ohio) and Fabio Malaspina (Twinsburg, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) allows add-on bus profiles and add-on controller profiles to be defined using an industrial domain-specific language (DSL) script. These add-on profiles can then be added to the IDE's device profile library for use in industrial control projects. This mitigates...