US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on April 7 for "I/O server services configured to facilitate control in a process control environment by containerized controller services" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,660, issued on April 7, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"I/O server services configured to facilitate control in a process control environment by containerized controller services" was invented by Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O server service interacts with multiple containerized controller services each implementing the same control routine to control the same portion of the same plant. The I/O server service may provide the same controller inputs to each of the containerized controller services (e.g., representing mea...