ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,160, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distributed industrial performance monitoring and analytics platform" was invented by Alper Turhan Enver (Austin, Texas), Mark John Nixon (Round Rock, Texas), Noel Howard Bell (Austin, Texas), Joshua Brian Kidd (Safety Harbor, Fla.) and Paul R. Muston (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring and analyzing data in a distributed process control system is provided. The system includes a user interface having a set of user controls for selecting and configuring data blocks to create a data diagram representi...