Rockwell Automation has purchased a Moore Microprocessor Patent™ (MMP) Portfolio license from Alliacense, a TPL Group. Rockwell Automation provides industrial automation control and information solutions designed to give its manufacturing customers a competitive advantage.

”Rockwell Automation is the sixteenth MMP Portfolio licensee of 2008,” said Joe Minville, vice president, licensing for Alliacense. “We continue to see strong interest from companies in a wide range of industries that rely on the MMP technologies and seek to ensure that they and their customers are not hindered by supply chain disruptions.”

The sweeping scope of applications using MMP Portfolio design techniques continues to encourage the world’s leading manufacturers of end-user products from around the globe to become MMP Portfolio licensees. Over 50 global companies from the U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have licensed the MMP Portfolio technologies, including many industry leaders such as Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Kenwood, Mattel, Nokia, Philips, Sony, and Toshiba.

The MMP Portfolio patents, filed by The TPL Group in the 1980s, cover techniques that enable higher performance and lower cost designs, and are fundamental to consumer and commercial digital systems ranging from DVD players, cell phones and portable music players to communications infrastructure, medical equipment, and automobiles which today have dozens of microprocessor-based key features and benefits.