US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on May 12 for "Publish-subscribe communication architecture for field devices in control and automation systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,736, issued on May 12, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Publish-subscribe communication architecture for field devices in control and automation systems" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas) and Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving at a field device, from a first client device or application, a message indicating a selection of a first one of a plurality of publish categories corresponding to a type of information desired by the first client device or application. The method further includes transmitting, from the field device to the fi...