US Patent Issued to Aveva Software on Jan. 21 for "System and server for performing product tracing and complex interlocking in a process control system" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,204,311, issued on Jan. 21, was assigned to Aveva Software LLC (Lake Forest, Calif.).

"System and server for performing product tracing and complex interlocking in a process control system" was invented by Scott William Clark (Melbourne, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to a novel system and methods for modeling process components using segmental analysis. As opposed to analyzing the entire system at once, each element representing a process component is assigned parameter inputs that enable the system to determine a current state. Changes in the element's parameter inputs are fed in a bi-directional ma...