ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,643, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).
"Fleet management system for portable maintenance tools" was invented by Joseph D. Fisher (Minnetonka, Minn.), Todd M. Toepke (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Nicholas T. Meyer (Fayetteville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An industrial service device fleet management system implements an organized and easy to use methodology to manage the digital content stored on each of a plurality of portable or stationary devices used in a plant, such as portable maintenance devices, to assure that each of the portable devices receives or implements only the ...