US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Feb. 10 for "I/O carrier and backplane for industrial process control systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,574, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"I/O carrier and backplane for industrial process control systems" was invented by Richard Mann (Austin, Texas), Charles Eastberg (Round Rock, Texas) and Scott Slade (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O device is configured to couple a plurality of process control field devices to a process controller controlling a process in an industrial process plant. The I/O device includes a backplane and a plurality of electronic marshalling component (EMC) slots. The EMC slots are each configured to receive a respective EMC and to rec...