US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Virtualization of an industrial control system in an industrial automation system" (Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,403, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Virtualization of an industrial control system in an industrial automation system" was invented by Jonathan A. Mills (Mayfield Heights, Ohio), Nathaniel S. Sandler (Chagrin Falls, Ohio), Eugene Mourzine (Twinsburg, Ohio), David C. Mazur (Mequon, Wis.) and Rob A. Entzminger (Shawnee, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein may involve an industrial network device that performs an operation based on symbolic data received via an input terminal. The systems and methods may involve processing circuitry...