US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on March 24 for "Systems and methods for hierarchical organization of software defined process control systems for industrial process plants" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,237, issued on March 24, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for hierarchical organization of software defined process control systems for industrial process plants" was invented by Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control system includes a plurality of field devices operating to control a process. A communication infrastructure couples the field devices to a software-defined control system (SDCS) that receives data from the field devices and transmits instructions to the field devices. A data cluster...