ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,101, issued on July 7, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Industrial automation relational data extraction, connection, and mapping" was invented by Chirayu S Shah (Milwaukee), Heiko Ott (Muensingen, Germany), Adrian Dams (Kiln Farm, Great Britain) and Bruce McCleave Jr. (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Industrial automation relational data extraction, connection, and mapping (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a system can comprise: a memory that stores executable components, and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable c...