ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,397, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Use of a curve section in a process control system" was invented by Gayathri Gopalakrishnan (Solna, Sweden), Dawid Ziobro (Vasteras, Sweden), Simon Linge (Vasteras, Sweden), Divyasheel Sharma (Bangalore, India), Chandrika K R (Bangalore, India) and Chriss Grimholt (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user terminal for a process control system obtains a first curve of a detected physical quantity of a piece of process control equipment in the process control system, where the first curve includes points with values of the physical quantity at var...