ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,946, issued on July 29, was assigned to Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for enabling user acceptance of a smart band data collection template for data collection in an industrial environment" was invented by Charles Howard Cella (Pembroke, Mass.), Gerald William Duffy Jr. (Philadelphia), Jeffrey P. McGuckin (Philadelphia) and Mehul Desai (Oak Brook, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an expert graphical user interface configured to: present a list of reliability measures of an industrial machine, facilitate a selection by a user of a reliability measure from the lis...