US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced smart search for batch provisioning, scheduling, and control" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,292, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enhanced smart search for batch provisioning, scheduling, and control" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Peter Hartmann (Austin, Texas), Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mary Grace Francisco (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide enhanced search capabilities in a process control system, a knowledge repository is generated that includes both contextual data and time series data. The contextual data organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-relate...