ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,732, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Insight driven programming tags 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 optimize a target variable in an industrial automation environmen...