US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Nov. 3 for "Visualization of a software defined process control system for industrial process plants" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,921, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Visualization of a software defined process control system for industrial process plants" was invented by Anthony Amaro Jr. (Round Rock, Texas) and Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software defined (SD) process control system (SDCS) implements controller and other process control-related business logic as logical abstractions (e.g., application layer services executing in containers, VMs, etc.) decoupled from hardware and software computing platform resources. An SD networking layer of the SDCS utilizes process co...