ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,192, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Operator display switching preview" was invented by Prashant Joshi (Leicester, Great Britain), Julian K. Naidoo (Cedar Park, Texas), Daniel R. Strinden (Austin, Texas), Cristopher Ian Sarmiento Uy (Metro Manila, Philippines), Duncan Trevor Schleiss (Austin, Texas), Molly Marie Firkins (Cedar Park, Texas) and Cindy A. Scott (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for previewing an operator display of a process section in a process plant include presenting a process section on a user interface device, where the process section...