ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,955, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS INC (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic plant data recorder appliance on the edge" was invented by Jeph Dones (Round Rock, Texas), Zhiyu Wang (Round Rock, Texas), Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy (Metro Manila, Philippines), Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas) and Mikhaila Salvador (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide enhanced search capabilities in a process control system, a knowledge repository is generated that includes both contextual data and time series data. The contextual data organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations be...