ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,787, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"SCADA web HMI system" was invented by Ryo Shimizu (Tokyo), Akira Nojima (Tokyo) and Nobuo Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drawing creating device generates HMI configuration data for a system monitoring screen from a network configuration diagram drawn by drag-and-drop operation. An HMI server device executes a system monitoring process by applying HMI configuration data to a predetermined server runtime library, and transmits a display signal according to the communication status of a monitored device. An HMI client device draws the system monitoring scree...