US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on May 13 for "Manufacturing process data conversion and structuring" (Texas, Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,736, issued on May 13, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Manufacturing process data conversion and structuring" was invented by Francisco P. Maturana (Lyndhurst, Ohio), Sachin Misra (Lakeway, Texas), Brian Taylor (Oshkosh, Wis.), Dennis J Luo (Germantown, Wis.) and Jay W Schiele (Union Grove, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a pac...