ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,988, issued on April 21, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Extensible profiles for industrial control modules" was invented by Scott A Pierce (Concord Township, Ohio), Anthony J Diblasio (Independence, Ohio) and Michael D. Kalan (Highland Heights, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) is designed to execute on a cloud-platform or a web-based platform. The IDE includes a library of device profiles that render graphical device configuration interfaces for reading and writing values of device parameters. To allow device profiles that wer...