ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,742, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Alias visualization" was invented by Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for providing a GUI that is designed to visualize how aliases are assigned and/or distributed in a process automation facility. In various implementations, alias registration data associated with distributed control nodes (DCNs) of a process automation facility may be retrieved. The alias registration data may include mappings between connection strings of input/output (I/O) channels made accessible by the DCNs and aliases register...