US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 4 for "Automation program controller allocation" (Ohio, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,500, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Automation program controller allocation" was invented by Anthony Carrara (Strongsville, Ohio), Lorenzo P. Majewski (Waukesha, Wis.) and Christopher E. Stanek (Willoughby, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports decoupled development of industrial control programs without requiring the programs to be initially bound to a specific industrial controller. The IDE system allows industrial control programs to be defined as smart objects within an industrial control project. Thes...