ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,966, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Schneider Electric USA Inc. (Boston).

"Electrical equipment management" was invented by Benjamin Patrick O'Rourke (Morrisville, N.C.), James Raymond Ramsey (Murfreeboro, Tenn.), Pankaj Lal (Brentwood, Tenn.), Richard Kent Crawford (Rockvale, Tenn.) and Xavier Lifran (Franklin, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for electrical equipment management. Embodiments include receiving and validating a login request from a user. Receiving a selection of an order of an electrical equipment system to assemble and, in response, retrieving and providing a plurality of instructions...