ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,515, issued on July 15, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial automation system topology with point to point representation paths" was invented by Taryl J. Jasper (Concord Township, Ohio), Charles M Rischar (Chardon, Ohio), Radek Bartman (Jablonec and Nisou, Czech Republic), Eryn Amara Danielle Manela (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Clark L Case (Aurora, Ohio) and Roman Vitek (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial topology discovery system autonomously discovers and documents industrial automation system topologies using orchestrated discovery agents of various types. The...