ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,583, issued on March 24, was assigned to MRIIOT LLC (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Embedded systems, and methods, having sensor signal interfaces for improving maintenance and data acquisition in manufacturing operations" was invented by Krzysztof Maciej Misztur (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Steffen Eudy (Warrenton, Mo.) and Nicholas John Amenda (Beloit, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device electrically coupled with manufacturing equipment and in digital communications with an equipment logic controller, data acquisition system, or both. The device comprises a processor that executes an instruction set. Execution of the instruction set caus...