Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Virtual Controller Deployed On Intrinsically Safe Field Device' Filed by Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.

MUMBAI, India, May 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517029971 A) filed by Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc., Foxborough, U.S.A., on March 28, for 'virtual controller deployed on intrinsically safe field device.'

Inventor(s) include Brown, Larry K.; Bertolina, Mark V; Baskaran, Harikrishnan; Ritchie, Briane; and Katke, Ashutosh.

The application for the patent was published on May 2, under issue no. 18/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An Intrinsically Safe (IS) Advanced Physical Layer (APL) based low power field device having a virtual controller implemented thereon. The virtual controller provides distributed control and one or more of historian, workst...