US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Programmable automation controller based optimization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,461, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Programmable automation controller based optimization" was invented by Timothy L. Stanford (Mequon, Wis.), Alexander J. Miller (Belgium, Wis.), Mayank Maheshwari (Faridabad, India) and Kevin Anthony Ellis (Bovey, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial controller can perform multi-dimensional optimization locally using the controller's native hardware and processing. An optimization algorithm is encoded on the industrial controller in a language understandable and executable by the controller (e.g., IEC61131-3). The op...