ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,172, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).
"Container registry and subscription service for industrial systems" was invented by David C. Mazur (Mequon, Wis.), Rob A. Entzminger (Shawnee, Kan.), Ryan Coon (Franklin, Wis.), Bruce T. McCleave Jr. (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and James M. Teal (New Brunswick, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may involve receiving, via at least one processor, a request from an industrial component operating in an industrial automation system, such that the request may include an indication of a software function. The method may then invol...