ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,228, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Automatic device ordering" was invented by Scott T. Griffiths (Milwaukee), Wojciech Koczwara (Katowice, Poland), David D. Brandt (Milwaukee), Marek Mossakowski (Katowice, Poland), Yutao Wang (Milwaukee) and Kyle Crum (Milwaukee).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For automatic device addressing, a processor configures each node device on a serial network for an order measurement. The processor further measures an order parameter for each of the node devices. The processor determines an order number of each of the node devices based on ...