ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,464, issued on July 14, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Front end user interface for manufacturing cloud system" was invented by Daniel A. Vanbrocklin (Troy, Mich.), Andrew M. Wilber (Franklin, Wis.), Alex G. Castle (Seattle), Michael J. Pantaleano (Milwaukee) and Jerry L. Foster (Goodrich, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant, cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) manufacturing platform offers a variety of industrial applications to end customers-including but not limited to MES, ERP, quality management, supply chain management, and customer relationship management (...