ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,747, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).
"Location specific communications gateway for multi-site enterprise" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas) and Peter Hartmann (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific plant sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further incl...