ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,339, issued on June 3, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Distributive deployment of process automation software applications" was invented by Hidenori Sawahara (Spring, Texas), Ichiro Wake (Tokyo), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas), David Emerson (Coppell, Texas) and Mark Hammer (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for automatic deployment of function block application programs (FBAPs) across process automation nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, one or more constraints associated with execution of a FBAP may be identified. Base...