ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,417, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Visual programming for industrial systems" was invented by Hongbo Zhao (Dalian, China) and Liangxin Lu (Dalian, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of visual programming for industrial systems. One system includes an electronic processor configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for programming an industrial controller. The electronic processor is also configured to receive a selection of a function associated with a set of computer executable instructions. The electronic processor is also configu...