ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,239, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Power control module for industrial power system management" was invented by David C. Mazur (Mequon, Wis.) and Andrew J. Schaeffler (Whitefish Bay, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed herein for the integrated design and deployment of process control logic and power control logic in the context of industrial automation environments. In an implementation, a programmable logic controller executes power control logic to control a power control module on the network of the electrical subsyst...