US Patent Issued to FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS on May 27 for "Systems and methods for associating modules in a software defined control system for industrial process plants" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS INC (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for associating modules in a software defined control system for industrial process plants" was invented by Anthony Amaro Jr. (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mark J. Nixon (Thorndale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control system includes a plurality of field devices operating to control a process in a process plant. A communication infrastructure couples the plurality of field devices to a software-defined control system (SDCS) that receives data from the field devices and transmits instructions to the field devices....