US Patent Issued to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR on April 21 for "Field device and method for replacing a sensor in a field device" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,498, issued on April 21, was assigned to ROSEMOUNT TANK RADAR AB (Molnlycke, Sweden).

"Field device and method for replacing a sensor in a field device" was invented by Michael Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Lovisa Rogestedt (Fagerfjall, Sweden) and Morgan Mardeland (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for replacing a first sensor with a second sensor in a field device system configured to determine a process variable, each of the first and second sensor provided with near field communication, NFC, functionality, the method includes: connecting the second sensor to an initiation device and initiating the second...