US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for dynamically maintained redundancy and load balancing in software defined control systems for industrial process plants" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,329, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for dynamically maintained redundancy and load balancing in software defined control systems for industrial process plants" was invented by Anthony Amaro Jr. (Round Rock, Texas) and Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software defined distributed control system (SDCS) in a process plant includes an application layer that includes a plurality of containers instantiated in a data cluster. Each of the containers is an isolated execution environment executing within the local operating system of a r...