ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,272, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Control program code conversion" was invented by Andreu Cuartiella Todoli (Barcelona, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for converting an initial control program code version to a new control program code version are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, input and output states of an industrial controller are monitored while the industrial controller executes the initial control program code version to operate a machine system and functional design specification for the industrial controller is generated....