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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2023
Fisher-rosemount Systems, Inc., Round Rock, TX (US);
Mark J. Nixon, Thorndale, TX (US);
Peter Hartmann, Austin, TX (US);
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A process plant and industrial control system architecture includes a generalized compute fabric that is agnostic or indifferent to the physical location at which the compute fabric is implemented, includes one or more physical control or field devices located at one or more specific plant sites at which a product or process is being manufactured and further includes a transport network that securely provides communications between the compute fabric and the pool of physical devices using a communications gateway device at each plant site that provides secured communications between the compute fabric and the one or more physical control or field devices at each plant site. The communications gateway at each plant site implements one or more secured point-to-point or peer-to-peer communication networks between the compute fabric and the plant site using one or more virtual private networks.