Patents by Inventor Donald Robert Lattimer
Donald Robert Lattimer 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).
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Patent number: 9927788Abstract: A process control system coordinates with an associated asset management system to implement a plant safety mechanism and, in particular, to prevent unintended changes to, or otherwise undesired operation of, one or more process control equipment resources in a process plant. A maintenance technician uses the asset management system to request access to one or more of the process control equipment resources. A process operator receives the request via the process control system and grants or denies the request. Process control equipment resources for which a process operator grants a request are inoperable, in part or in whole, by the process control system. Upon completion of the maintenance task, the maintenance technician requests to return control of the process control equipment resource to the process operator. The return is complete when the process operator acknowledges the return of the resource to the process control system.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: James R. Balentine, Andre A. Dicaire, Cindy A. Scott, Donald Robert Lattimer, Kenneth Schibler, John R. Shepard, Larry O. Jundt
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Patent number: 9342072Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to display process control information are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving in a processor a first status of a first mode element, the first mode element indicating a current operating condition of an object of a process control device, receiving in the processor a second status of a second mode element, the second mode element indicating a desired operating condition of the object of the process control device, determining a mode of the object based on the first status and the second status, the mode indicating a condition of the object of the process control device, and displaying the mode of the object of the process control device within a user interface as a graphic.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: David Farrell Holmes, Donald Robert Lattimer, Dale Henry Perry, David Michael Parsons, Harry Alan Burns
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Publication number: 20120296448Abstract: A process control system coordinates with an associated asset management system to implement a plant safety mechanism and, in particular, to prevent unintended changes to, or otherwise undesired operation of, one or more process control equipment resources in a process plant. A maintenance technician uses the asset management system to request access to one or more of the process control equipment resources. A process operator receives the request via the process control system and grants or denies the request. Process control equipment resources for which a process operator grants a request are inoperable, in part or in whole, by the process control system. Upon completion of the maintenance task, the maintenance technician requests to return control of the process control equipment resource to the process operator. The return is complete when the process operator acknowledges the return of the resource to the process control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2011Publication date: November 22, 2012Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: James R. Balentine, Andre A. Dicaire, Cindy A. Scott, Donald Robert Lattimer, Kenneth Schibler, John R. Shepard, Larry O. Jundt
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Publication number: 20120079407Abstract: Example methods and apparatus to display process control information are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving in a processor a first status of a first mode element, the first mode element indicating a current operating condition of an object of a process control device, receiving in the processor a second status of a second mode element, the second mode element indicating a desired operating condition of the object of the process control device, determining a mode of the object based on the first status and the second status, the mode indicating a condition of the object of the process control device, and displaying the mode of the object of the process control device within a user interface as a graphic.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2010Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: David Farrell Holmes, Dale Henry Lattimer, Donald Robert Lattimer, David Michael Parsons, Harry Alan Barns
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Patent number: 7984199Abstract: Field devices on a communication network can be configured using a configuration device that stores a configuration data for each of the field devices in a network configuration domain in nonvolatile memory. Each field device includes a configuration domain associated with configuration data stored in nonvolatile memory of the field device. In response to commands from the configuration device, the field devices upload configuration data to or download configuration data from the configuration device. Field devices receive configuration data from the configuration device and store the received configuration data in the nonvolatile memory to define the configuration of the field device.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2008Date of Patent: July 19, 2011Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Dean Ferguson, Donald Robert Lattimer
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Patent number: 7835295Abstract: An interface module for use in a process monitoring and control system has an Ethernet port, a controller, and at least one segment I/O module. The Ethernet port is adapted to send and receive signals in an Ethernet protocol over a cable comprising a plurality of wires and to receive a voltage potential from at least one pair of the plurality of wires. The controller is coupled to the Ethernet port and powered from the received voltage potential. The at least one segment I/O module is coupled to the controller and is adapted to couple to an associated field device segment with at least one attached field device. The at least one segment I/O module is adapted to interact with the at least one attached field device on the associated field device segment.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Rosemount Inc.Inventors: John Paul Brewer, Eric Darrell Rotvold, Kelly Michael Orth, Robert John Karschnia, Philip Gordon Ostby, Donald Robert Lattimer
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Patent number: 7680549Abstract: A device for diagnosing operation of an industrial process control or monitoring system includes an input configured to receive an input related to a process signal. A first statistical parameter module provides a first statistical parameter output related to a statistical parameter of the process signal. A filter provides a filter output related to a filtered value of the process signal. A second statistical parameter module provides a second statistical parameter output related to a statistical parameter of the filter output. A diagnostic module diagnoses operation of the industrial process based upon the first and second statistical parameters.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2006Date of Patent: March 16, 2010Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Kadir Kavaklioglu, David L. Wehrs, Donald Robert Lattimer, Evren Eryurek
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Publication number: 20090228611Abstract: Field devices on a communication network can be configured using a configuration device that stores a configuration data for each of the field devices in a network configuration domain in nonvolatile memory. Each field device includes a configuration domain associated with configuration data stored in nonvolatile memory of the field device. In response to commands from the configuration device, the field devices upload configuration data to or download configuration data from the configuration device. Field devices receive configuration data from the configuration device and store the received configuration data in the nonvolatile memory to define the configuration of the field device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2008Publication date: September 10, 2009Applicant: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Anthony Dean Ferguson, Donald Robert Lattimer