Rockwell Automation was granted a patent for collaborative automation design.

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    "patent_title": "Notifications from an industrial automation development environment",
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    "uspto_assignee": "ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.",
    "patent_abstract": "An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project. To facilitate effective collaboration via efficient communication between developers, the IDE system can be configured to send push notifications to personal client devices in response to relevant events originating within the development environment relating to development of an automation system project.",
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