ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,782, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Human machine interface for providing information to an operator of an industrial production facility" was invented by Rohan James McAdam (Walang, Australia), Graeme John Laycock (Sidney, Australia) and Andrew James Lo (Sidney, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system controlled by a human machine interface (HMI) connected to an industrial process control and automation system controlling an industrial process. The HMI collects information and data from a semantic network in response to a natural language request input into th...