ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,343, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Industrial control system architecture for real-time simulation and process control" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas), Noel Howard Bell (Austin, Texas), John M. Caldwell (Austin, Texas) and Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Multi-Purpose Dynamic Simulation and run-time Control platform includes a virtual process environment coupled to a physical process environment, where components/nodes of the virtual and physical process environments cooperate to dynamicall...