US Patent Issued to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC on June 17 for "Process control system, process control apparatus, and program update method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,624, issued on June 17, was assigned to YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Process control system, process control apparatus, and program update method" was invented by Yusuke Takeno (Musashino, Japan) and Takeshi Ohno (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process control system includes a first process control apparatus and a second process control apparatus. The second process control apparatus includes a data takeover unit configured to acquire, from the first process control apparatus, takeover data required to be taken over to continue a system function when switching from the first process control apparatus to the s...