US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on July 7 for "High availability networking device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,097, issued on July 7, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"High availability networking device" was invented by Neil Peterson (Round Rock, Texas), Gary Law (Round Rock, Texas), Alexandra Griffith (Round Rock, Texas), Scott J. Nicolet (Round Rock, Texas), Sergio Diaz (Round Rock, Texas) and Mark Nixon (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking device and networking method for use in industrial automation applications. The networking device includes redundant circuitry that can allow the networking device to continue normal operation in the event of a failure that occurs with hardware ...