US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on March 18 for "Highly-versatile field devices and communication networks for use in control and automation systems" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,973, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Highly-versatile field devices and communication networks for use in control and automation systems" was invented by Mark J. Nixon (Round Rock, Texas) and Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly versatile process control or factory automation field device is configured with an interface and communication connection structure that enables the field device to operate as a data server that communicates with and supports multiple different applications or clients, either directly or indirectly, while simultaneously...