US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on May 27 for "Wireless protocol converter for field devices" (Texas, Minnesota, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,722, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Wireless protocol converter for field devices" was invented by David R. Denison (Austin, Texas), Manikandan Janardhanan (Cedar Park, Texas), Fred G. Middendorf (Eagan, Minn.), Scott N. Hokeness (Lakeville, Minn.) and Nicholas T. Meyer (Fayetteville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accessing and controlling field devices to collect data and convert protocols include receiving data encoded in a process control protocol, extracting a payload, storing some of the payload, and transmitting some of the payload in a general-purpose c...