US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Controlling an industrial mover system based on sustainability factors" (American, Canadian, South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,402, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Controlling an industrial mover system based on sustainability factors" was invented by Yuhong Huang (Acton, Mass.), Alexandra L. Schwertner (Cleveland), Andrea Ruotolo (Ontario, Canada), Kyle Crum (Bayside, Wis.), Joshua W. Connor (Sussex, Wis.), Jason R. Mannion (Havertown, Pa.) and Sinethemba Zulu (Johannesburg).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mover system includes a track, a plurality of movers configured to move along the track, and one or more processors configured to determine a first amount of energy consumption associat...