Fisher-Rosemount Systems Assigned Patent

Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,037,303) developed by Nixon, Mark J., Blevins, Terrence L., Round Rock, TX, Christensen, Daniel D., Austin, TX, Muston, Paul Richard, Leicester, Great Britain, and Beoughter, Ken J., Round Rock, TX, for “collecting and delivering data to a big data machine in a process control system.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A device supporting big data in a process plant includes an interface to a communications network, a cache configured to store data observed by the device, and a multi-processing element processor to cause the data to be cached and transmitted, (e.g., streamed) for historization at a unitary, logical centralized data storage area. The data storage area stores multiple types of process control or plant data using a common format. The device time-stamps the cached data, and, in some cases, all data that is generated or created by or received at the device may be cached and/or streamed. The device may be a field device, a controller, an input/output device, a network management device, a user interface device, or a historian device, and the device may be a node of a network supporting big data in the process plant. Multiple devices in the network may support layered or leveled caching of data.”

The patent application was filed on March 27, 2017 (15/470,585).