US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Incompatibility notification and optimal compatible solution" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,731, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Incompatibility notification and optimal compatible solution" was invented by Fabio Malaspina (Twinsburg, Ohio), James A. Bizily (Willoughby, Ohio), Chunhui Zhu (Dalian, China), Yuan Wei (Dalian, China), Jingfeng Chen (Dalian, China) and Emily J. Smith (Willowick, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing sets of compatible firmware versions (e.g., cross-compatibility solution) for flashing (e.g., programming or re-programming) different devices of a network o...