US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Oct. 28 for "Utilizing graphical user interface to generate process automation alarms for distributed control nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,561, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Utilizing graphical user interface to generate process automation alarms for distributed control nodes" 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 relate to providing an alarm configuration GUI via which a user can interact in defining corresponding alarms for corresponding function block identifiers of a process automation system. For example, a user can interact with the alarm configuration GUI in selecting a funct...