ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,861, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Risk management based work order prioritization" was invented by Liudmila Domakhina (Toronto), Mohammad Esmalifalak (Toronto), Stuart Fergusson (Toronto), Min Hua Yu (Toronto), Hyo Jung S Son (Calgary, Canada) and Tareq Al-Masri (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A work order management system automates the process of scheduling maintenance tasks and generating corresponding work orders via analysis of monitored data generated by the industrial assets. The work order management system can monitor status and operational data...