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Gary K. Law — 127 Patents

FSFisher-Rosemount Systems: 125 patents #2 of 460Top 1%
Georgetown, TX: #5 of 611 inventorsTop 1%
Texas: #283 of 125,132 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,845 of 4,157,543Top 1%
127 Patents All Time
Gary K. Law has been granted 127 US patents while listed as an inventor at Fisher-Rosemount Systems. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in December 2025. Gary K. Law ranks #8,845 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.21%). Patent records list Gary K. Law in Georgetown, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 16 patents in 2023.peak 162002: 1 patents20022005: 4 patents2006: 4 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents2010: 4 patents20102011: 4 patents2012: 5 patents2013: 3 patents20132014: 4 patents2015: 7 patents2016: 4 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 1 patents2019: 10 patents20192020: 13 patents2021: 6 patents2022: 11 patents20222023: 16 patents2024: 11 patents2025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 127 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
12498707 Automatic load balancing and performance leveling of virtual nodes running real-time control in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2025-12-16
12455557 Apparatuses and methods for non-disruptive replacement of simplex I/O components Sergio Diaz, Trevor D. Schleiss 2025-10-28
12422901 Smart functionality for discrete field devices and signals Kent A. Burr 2025-09-23
12386343 Industrial control system architecture for real-time simulation and process control Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2025-08-12
12321145 Architecture-independent process control Larry O. Jundt, Edward McDevitt, Matt Stoner, Godfrey R. Sherriff, David R. Denison +4 more 2025-06-03
12321161 Publish/subscribe protocol for real-time process control Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2025-06-03
12316469 Secondary control for de-energizing safety field devices with digital protocols Sergio Diaz 2025-05-27
12255973 Highly-versatile field devices and communication networks for use in control and automation systems Mark J. Nixon 2025-03-18
12189379 Virtualized real-time I/O in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2025-01-07
12164275 System and method for providing a visualization of safety events of a process control system over time Godfrey R. Sherriff 2024-12-10
12160406 Whitelisting for HART communications in a process control system Sergio Diaz, Godfrey R. Sherriff, Marcos Peluso, Scott N. Hokeness 2024-12-03
12117801 Software defined process control system and methods for industrial process plants Anthony Amaro, Jr., Mark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad 2024-10-15
12085925 Centralized virtualization management node in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2024-09-10
12061464 Publish/subscribe protocol for real-time process control Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2024-08-13
12019431 Ease of node switchovers in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2024-06-25
12007747 Software defined process control system and methods for industrial process plants Anthony Amaro, Jr., Mark J. Nixon, Claudio Fayad 2024-06-11
11960473 Distributed ledgers in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, William Carson McCormick, Claudio Fayad 2024-04-16
11960270 Automatic load balancing and performance leveling of virtual nodes running real-time control in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2024-04-16
11914360 Methods and apparatus to implement safety applications associated with process control systems Godfrey R. Sherriff, Sergio Diaz 2024-02-27
11886159 System and method for creating a set of monitor and effect blocks from a cause and effect matrix Godfrey R. Sherriff 2024-01-30
11846934 Industrial control system hyperconverged architecture Nina Golder, Aaron Crews, Robert G. Halgren, III, Claudio Fayad 2023-12-19
11824650 Publish-subscribe communication architecture for highly-versatile field devices in control and automation systems Mark J. Nixon 2023-11-21
11824934 Security systems for use in implementing highly-versatile field devices and communication networks in control and automation systems Mark J. Nixon 2023-11-21
11747797 Publish/subscribe protocol for real-time process control Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2023-09-05
11747798 Virtualized real-time I/O in process control systems Mark J. Nixon, Anthony Amaro, Jr., Noel Howard Bell, John M. Caldwell 2023-09-05