US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Sept. 23 for "Commissioning devices to process automation systems using portable setup devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,828, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Commissioning devices to process automation systems using portable setup devices" was invented by Joseph Malm (Plano, Texas), David Emerson (Coppell, 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 commissioning a device such as a distributed control node (DCN) for operation with a process automation system (PAS) using a portable setup device (PSD) and an "out-of-band" communication channel. In vario...