US Patent Issued to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA on Nov. 25 for "Location-based licensing and configuration" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,728, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA INC. (Foxboro, Mass.).

"Location-based licensing and configuration" was invented by James Redmond (Richmond, Canada) and Stephen Neave (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and system for provisioning industrial assets. A provisioning server processes location data and an identifier associated with a selected industrial asset for verifying a presence of the asset within a predefined area and for determining a feature set for the asset. The location data is indicative of a location of the asset and the identifier identifies the asset and has the fea...