US Patent Issued to ROSEMOUNT on March 24 for "Wireless discrete input/output with external power option" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,226, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROSEMOUNT INC. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"Wireless discrete input/output with external power option" was invented by Brian Lee Westfield (Victoria, Minn.), Theodore Henry Schnaare (New Prague, Minn.), James Alan Johnson (Savage, Minn.), Greg Edward Gindele (Maple Lake, Minn.), Ryan Thomas Lindsey (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jared Neuharth (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Robert Weinberger (Prior Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless field device for use in an industrial process includes input/output terminals to couple to a process interface element and a discrete input/output channel to receive a...