US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Feb. 24 for "Alarm viewer establishment of connection-oriented communication with a distributed control node of a process automation system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,956, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alarm viewer establishment of connection-oriented communication with a distributed control node of a process automation system" was invented by David Emerson (Coppell, Texas), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas) and Hidenori Sawahara (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to receiving, from a distributed control node (DCN) that includes a corresponding active alarm engine, an alarm configuration transmission that includes a network addressable DCN identifier of the DCN and also includes a direct or indirect in...