ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,053, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for managing PRP networks" was invented by Julie Nguyen (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Stephen A. Wenner (Akron, Ohio), Eric Eilberg (Rocky River, Ohio), Jessica E Forguites (Willoughby, Ohio) and Mark G. Devonshire (Chagrin Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a topology view of an industrial parallel redundancy protocol (PRP) network includes: detecting, by one or more processors, a plurality of nodes on the PRP network; determining, by the one or more processors, a first set of the p...