ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,988, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Aquila Engineering LLC (Houston).

"Systems and methods for manipulating control panels using robotic arms based on control system data analytics" was invented by Jose Meraz (Houston) and Andrew James Pratt (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein utilize one or more robotic arms and a data analytics server in conjunction with existing control systems. The data analytics server is configured to receive operational data relating to operation of industrial equipment being controlled by a control system. The data analytics server is also configured t...