US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Jan. 27 for "Transmitting, to a distributed control node (DCN), default alarm configuration file(s) determined based on a function block type" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,807, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transmitting, to a distributed control node (DCN), default alarm configuration file(s) determined based on a function block type" was invented by David Emerson (Coppell, Texas), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas) and Hidenori Sawahara (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations transmit, to a distributed control node (DCN), default alarm configuration file(s) that are determined based on a particular type of function block. Those implementations transmit the default alarm configuration file(s) to the DCN based on determi...