ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,482, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Systems and methods for autonomous interaction of an industrial robot with an industrial machine" was invented by Chloe David (Milwaukee), Alexander G. Brynildsen (Milwaukee), Corey A. Peterson (Grafton, Wis.) and Robert Dilgard (Shorewood, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control cabinet (MCC), implemented in a motor control center, on which an operation is performable by an industrial robot (IR), comprising: a bucket placeable in a section of the MCC, the bucket is configured to contain industrial device(s) and is m...