ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,436, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Storage appliance for controller platforms" was invented by Joseph P. Felix (Phoenixville, Pa.), Paul F. McLaughlin (Ambler, Pa.), James M. Schreder (Perkasie, Pa.) and Michael J. Waynick (Hartboro, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and network control system for an industrial processing facility (IPF) including, a plant-wide network coupling at least one controller platform. The controller platform comprising computing hardware and a memory and at least one application module (AM) contained in the memory. The AM comprising a control ap...