US Patent Issued to Honeywell International on May 13 for "Apparatus and method for automated identification and diagnosis of constraint violations" (American, Indian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,722, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Apparatus and method for automated identification and diagnosis of constraint violations" was invented by Andrew John Trenchard (Romsey, Great Britain), Christopher J. Webb (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Sanjay K. Dave (Bangalore, India), Michael Niemiec (Dexter, Mich.), Mandar Vartak (Bangalore, India) and Sriram Hallihole (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining data identifying values of one or more process variables associated with an industrial process controller and identifying one or more constraint violations usin...