ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,011, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Quality review system with plug-ins" was invented by Joshua B. Kidd (Safety Harbor, Fla.), Marcus Shane Strangeway Orchard (Osprey, Fla.) and Todd A. Cook (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quality review management system may be used to analyze the operation of manufacturing processes within a plant based on data collected by various data sources in the plant, such as batch executive applications, to automatically detect, store, and display exceptions within those processes for use by a quality review engineer to determine...