US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on April 22 for "Modular control network architecture" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,313, issued on April 22, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Modular control network architecture" was invented by Harshal S. Haridas (Jamison, Pa.) and Angela Lee Lordi (Landsdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system is disclosed connected to at least one input/output (I/O) module and to at least one controller of an industrial distributed control system. The apparatus and system comprises a control network module having a control component that uses a processor to execute operating software that implements operating configurations for the control network module. At least one I/O po...