Patents by Inventor Cheyenne Hernandez

Cheyenne Hernandez has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240053741
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system to modify an industrial control system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: configure a device driver based on a first command, the first command to configure the device driver to initiate a device-specific communication protocol to collect input data from a publisher device coupled to the device driver; access a second command from a subscriber device, the second command to include a device identifier of the publisher device and to specify at least one of a communication mode, a device calibration configuration, or a fault detection configuration, the second command based on a product quality prediction, the product quality prediction generated using a spectral data model; and provide the second command to the device driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Anthony Amaro, JR., John M. Caldwell, Mark Nixon, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Patent number: 9130980
    Abstract: A Unified Threat Management System (UTMS) for securing network traffic in a process control system may comprise network devices configured to receive network traffic related to the process control system and including a ruleset received from an external source. The ruleset may include one or more rules defining a condition to accept or deny the network traffic received at the network device. The state of the network device may be integrated into the process control system as a process control object or variable, thus allowing the state and other UTMS and component network device parameters and variables to be displayed to an operator at a workstation within a graphical process control system environment. The network devices may also communicate with a perpetual service that proactively supplies the devices with rulesets to meet the latest security threats, threat patterns, and control system vulnerabilities found or predicted to exist within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary Keith Law, Nate Kube, Robert Kent Huba, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Patent number: 8832236
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to replace field devices in process control systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes recording, at a first process controller of a process control system, configuration data sent from a configuration subsystem of the process control system to a first field device to commission the first field device, detecting, at a second process controller of the process control system, replacement of the first field device with a second field device, and sending the recorded configuration data from the second process controller to the second field device when the replacement is detected to commission the second field device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheyenne Hernandez, David R. Denison, Brandon Hieb, Gary Law
  • Patent number: 8689118
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to conceal portions of a visual object diagram in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a selection to conceal a first functional block within a visual object diagram, wherein the first functional block is associated with a first view parameter, determining a link from a process control parameter within the first functional block to a first intersection within a second functional block within the visual object diagram, wherein the link is associated with a second view parameter, coupling the first view parameter and the second view parameter to the first intersection, and concealing the link and the first functional block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon Hieb, Gary Keith Law, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Patent number: 8374094
    Abstract: Example methods and systems to verify a communication path between a field device and a process controller in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes transmitting via a first wireless communication path to a first portion of a process control system associated with one of the field device or the process controller, a command signal from a verification controller. In response to receiving the command signal in the first portion of the process control system, transmitting a verification signal via a first wired communication path from the first portion of the process control system to a second portion of the process control system associated with the other one of the field device or the process controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc
    Inventors: Gary Law, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20110313547
    Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to replace field devices in process control systems are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes recording, at a first process controller of a process control system, configuration data sent from a configuration subsystem of the process control system to a first field device to commission the first field device, detecting, at a second process controller of the process control system, replacement of the first field device with a second field device, and sending the recorded configuration data from the second process controller to the second field device when the replacement is detected to commission the second field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Cheyenne Hernandez, David R. Denison, Brandon Hieb, Gary Law
  • Publication number: 20110072506
    Abstract: A Unified Threat Management System (UTMS) for securing network traffic in a process control system may comprise network devices configured to receive network traffic related to the process control system and including a ruleset received from an external source. The ruleset may include one or more rules defining a condition to accept or deny the network traffic received at the network device. The state of the network device may be integrated into the process control system as a process control object or variable, thus allowing the state and other UTMS and component network device parameters and variables to be displayed to an operator at a workstation within a graphical process control system environment. The network devices may also communicate with a perpetual service that proactively supplies the devices with rulesets to meet the latest security threats, threat patterns, and control system vulnerabilities found or predicted to exist within the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Nate Kube, Robert K. Huba, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20100293495
    Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to conceal portions of a visual object diagram in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving a selection to conceal a first functional block within a visual object diagram, wherein the first functional block is associated with a first view parameter, determining a link from a process control parameter within the first functional block to a first intersection within a second functional block within the visual object diagram, wherein the link is associated with a second view parameter, coupling the first view parameter and the second view parameter to the first intersection, and concealing the link and the first functional block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Brandon Hieb, Gary Keith Law, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20100149997
    Abstract: Example methods and systems to verify a communication path between a field device and a process controller in a process control system are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes transmitting via a first wireless communication path to a first portion of a process control system associated with one of the field device or the process controller, a command signal from a verification controller. In response to receiving the command signal in the first portion of the process control system, transmitting a verification signal via a first wired communication path from the first portion of the process control system to a second portion of the process control system associated with the other one of the field device or the process controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Publication date: June 17, 2010
    Inventors: Gary Law, Brandon Hieb, David R. Denison, Cheyenne Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20070150081
    Abstract: An integrated graphical runtime interface that provides a secure, highly available environment for process control systems is disclosed. In one example, a method for displaying process control information via a graphical user interface instantiates a runtime workspace application to operatively interpose between an operator station operating system and a user. The example method displays a plurality of panels via the graphical user interface and displays a portion of the process control information associated with a runtime application in at least one of the plurality of panels via the runtime workspace application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventors: Mark Nixon, Ken Beoughter, Bruce Campney, Tennyson Hoa, Richard Rodriguez, Cheyenne Hernandez, Stephen Gilbert