ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,171, issued on June 23, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).
"Gateway system with contextualized process plant knowledge repository" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Claudio Fayad (Austin, Texas), Robert G. Halgren III (Austin, Texas), Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas), John M. Caldwell (Austin, Texas), Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas) and Peter Hartmann (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway system securely delivers and exposes data generated by and/or related to a process plant for consumption by external systems, and includes an edge-facing component that receives ...