ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,650, issued on July 28, was assigned to Schneider Electric Industries SAS (Rueil-Malmaison, France).
"Industrial touchscreen" was invented by Felipe Castillo Buenaventura (Angouleme, France) and Rollan Boulard (Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial touchscreen apparatus integrates critical control functions and visualization features into a single display while maintaining safe operation of industrial machines. The apparatus includes a host computing unit for operation functions and a separate control computing unit for critical control functions associated with industrial machines. A mixer mo...