US Patent Issued to Fisher-Rosemount Systems on Oct. 28 for "Apparatuses and methods for non-disruptive replacement of simplex I/O components" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,557, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Fisher-Rosemount Systems Inc. (Round Rock, Texas).

"Apparatuses and methods for non-disruptive replacement of simplex I/O components" was invented by Sergio Diaz (Pflugerville, Texas), Gary K. Law (Georgetown, Texas) and Trevor Duncan Schleiss (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for physically removing and replacing a simplex I/O component include plant personnel placing the component into a "REPLACEABLE" state via a user interface of the component. In response, the simplex I/O component informs the I/O subsystem thereof. The I/O subsystem stores a record of the component's...