US Patent Issued to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES on July 21 for "Manufacturing cloud system" (Michigan, Illinois, California, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,824, issued on July 21, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Manufacturing cloud system" was invented by Adam S Mullen (Detroit), Anthony J. Murphy (Long Beach, Calif.), Ara Surenian (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Devin Burke (Evansville, Ill.), Manu Ravichandran (Austin, Texas), Michael Hart (Goodrich, Mich.), Nathan Pieri (Melbourne Beach, Fla.) and Olusola O. Oduntan (Novi, Mich.).

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