ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,807, issued on June 30, was assigned to SIMPLICONTROL Inc. (Clarkston, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for dynamically customizing a human-machine interface using object oriented programming" was invented by Andrew Derbyshire (Goodrich, Mich.), Adam Shannon (Madison Heights, Mich.) and Scott Selvidge (Clinton Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining, using a human-machine interface (HMI), a first input corresponding to a selection of an image of a workpiece stored in a relational database and one or more workpiece parameters, where the one or more workpiece parameters include sequence information, workp...