US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Sept. 2 for "Deploying process automation alarms to distributed control nodes" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,570, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Deploying process automation alarms to 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 storing, in alarms database for a process automation system, an association of an alarm configuration file to a function block identifier of a function block that corresponds to the alarm configuration file. Some implementations relate to a node transmitting, via a process automation network, an alar...