ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,257, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Automated data transfer between automation systems and the cloud" was invented by Matthew Weaver (Strongsville, Ohio) and Nathaniel S. Sandler (Chagrin Falls, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial extract, transform, and load (ETL) system extracts and transfers data from proprietary industrial systems and devices to cloud-level systems or other higher level applications. The industrial ETL system uses application connectors that are designed to interface with various types commonly used or proprietary industrial syst...