US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on June 3 for "Architecture-independent process control" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,145, issued on June 3, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Architecture-independent process control" was invented by Larry Oscar Jundt (Round Rock, Texas), Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas), Edward McDevitt (Olathe, Kan.), Matt Stoner (Blue Springs, Mo.), Godfrey R. Sherriff (Austin, Texas), David R. Denison (Austin, Texas), Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas), James R. Balentine (Austin, Texas), J. Michael Lucas (Leicester, Great Britain) and Stephen Gilbert (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems in...