US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Oct. 21 for "Leveraging out-of-band communication channels between process automation nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,174, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Leveraging out-of-band communication channels between process automation nodes" was invented by David Emerson (Coppell, Texas), Joseph Malm (Plano, Texas), Andrew Keller (Lewisville, Texas), Patrick Clay (Frisco, Texas), Hidenori Sawahara (Spring, Texas) and Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations are described herein for leveraging an "out-of-band" communication channel between nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, an out-of-band communication channel may be established between two or more process a...