ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,315, issued on June 2, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Transmitting alarm data in communication systems" was invented by Rod Stein (Edmonton, Canada) and Mohammad Areef Penukonda (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of techniques to enable transmission of alarm data in an industrial automation setting using a publish-subscribe communication system within an Open Platform Communications Unified Architecture (OPC UA) framework. In an example, the alarm data, initially encoded in OPC UA format, is collected from an OPC UA server over a client-server communication system. This data is ...