ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,236, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Field device digital twins in process control and automation systems" was invented by Brian M. Capoccia (Round Rock, Texas), Brian Lamothe (Round Rock, Texas), Narayanan Doraiswamy (Round Rock, Texas), Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Claudio Fayad (Austin, Texas), Mickey Nanda (Austin, Texas), Aaron C. Jones (Austin, Texas), Peter Hartmann (Austin, Texas) and Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control or automation system configured to control a plurality of process control or automation field devices in ...