ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,430, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Scalable alias update framework for process automation" was invented by Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Andrew Keller (Lewisville, Texas) and Rabi Gurung (Calgary, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to a scalable alias update framework for process automation. In various implementations, an alias server detects one or more changes to one or more aliases registered to one or more nodes of a process automation facility, each node including a sensor or actuator, and the process automation facil...