US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Dec. 16 for "Automatic load balancing and performance leveling of virtual nodes running real-time control in process control systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,707, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic load balancing and performance leveling of virtual nodes running real-time control in process control systems" 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 ...