ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Round Rock, Texas, has been assigned a patent (9,495,313) developed by four co-inventors for "apparatus and methods to communicatively couple field devices to controllers in a process control system system." The co-inventors are Kent Allan Burr, Round Rock, Texas, Gary Keith Law, Georgetown, Texas, Doyle Eugene Broom, Georgetown, Texas, and Mark J. Nixon, Round Rock, Texas.

The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2014 (14/ . . .