ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,077, issued on July 1.

"System comprising a field device and a control device and method for operating such a system" was invented by Olivier Dubray (Chatuzange-le-Goubet, France), Denis Lambert (Saint Bardoux, France), Fabrice Marcel (Saint Peray, France), Pierre Metral (Chanos-Curson, France), Florian Chanal (Saint Barthelemy de Vals, France) and Vincent Pichot (Romans-sur-Isere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a field device and a control device. The field device includes a field device controller and a field device transmitter. The control device includes a control device controller and a control device tra...