US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Jan. 20 for "Model predictive control systems for process automation plants" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,018, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Model predictive control systems for process automation plants" was invented by Shu Xu (San Diego) and Mark Nixon (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A model predictive control (MPC) device includes an input interface configured to receive an industrial process input associated with at least one component of a process automation plant, an output interface configured to transmit a control instruction to control the component, memory configured to store first and second MPC process models corresponding to different states, and a pr...