Honeywell Assigned Patent

Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ, has been assigned a patent (9,836,426) developed by Zou, Ke, Liang, Haifeng, Yang, Zhi, Lv, Jie, Lv, Enkui, Xu, Huagang, and Wang, Changqiu, Shanghai, China, for a “SD card based RTU.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system includes a remote terminal unit, (RTU) and a portable storage medium, (PSM), such as a secure digital (SD) card. The RTU includes processing circuitry. The RTU includes a portable storage interface configured to physically connect to the PSM and electrically couple the PSM to the processing circuitry. The RTU includes on-chip memory. The processing circuitry is configured to determine that the PSM is coupled to the processing circuitry and access a specified folder of the PSM. The processing circuitry is configured to: in response to determining that the PSM stores function code in the specified folder, perform a specified function corresponding to the function code by executing the function code.”

The patent application was filed on August 4, 2015 (14/818,183)