ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,311, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).
"Nebula fleet management" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Jason A. Jordan (Round Rock, Texas), Brian LaMothe (Round Rock, Texas), Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas), Narayanan Doraiswamy (Round Rock, Texas) and Ayub Lakhani (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented. One or more applications, executing via the location-agnostic c...