Patents by Inventor Joseph D. Fisher
Joseph D. Fisher 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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Publication number: 20230196233Abstract: An industrial service device fleet management system implements an organized and easy to use methodology to manage the digital content stored on each of a plurality of portable or stationary devices used in a plant, such as portable maintenance devices, to assure that each of the portable devices receives or implements only the content that it is supposed to have and is upgraded at the appropriate time to include new content, features, etc. The fleet management system includes a memory for storing information related to the fleet of portable or stationary devices including device identifications, device descriptions, end user names and privileges, the current content of each of the portable devices, and templates defining configuration parameters for the portable or stationary devices. The system also includes a content downloader that obtains, stores, and downloads content (such as software and firmware upgrades, additional features, applications, drivers, knowledge articles, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Joseph D. Fisher, Todd M. Toepke, Nicholas T. Meyer
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Patent number: 11605037Abstract: An industrial service device fleet management system implements an organized and easy to use methodology to manage the digital content stored on each of a plurality of portable or stationary devices used in a plant, such as portable maintenance devices, to assure that each of the portable devices receives or implements only the content that it is supposed to have and is upgraded at the appropriate time to include new content, features, etc. The fleet management system includes a memory for storing information related to the fleet of portable or stationary devices including device identifications, device descriptions, end user names and privileges, the current content of each of the portable devices, and templates defining configuration parameters for the portable or stationary devices. The system also includes a content downloader that obtains, stores, and downloads content (such as software and firmware upgrades, additional features, applications, drivers, knowledge articles, etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Joseph D. Fisher, Todd M. Toepke, Nicholas T. Meyer
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Patent number: 10554644Abstract: Techniques for performing two-factor authentication in a process plant include receiving, at a user interface device, a first type of identification information for a user from an identification device or a physical trait of the user. The user interface device also receives a second type of identification information for the user from knowledge-based information provided by the user. The user interface device then determines that each type of identification information corresponds to the same authorized user within the process plant. When both types of identification information are for the same authorized user, the user is granted access to the user interface device. Accordingly, the user may execute functions on the user interface device to perform operations on a plant asset which is connected to the user interface device.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, Christopher P. Kantzes, Neil J. Peterson
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Patent number: 10374873Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Stephen Armstrong, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
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Patent number: 10375162Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, James R. Logerquist, Joseph D. Fisher
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Patent number: 10270853Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Alden C. Russell, III, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
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Publication number: 20180026954Abstract: Techniques for performing two-factor authentication in a process plant include receiving, at a user interface device, a first type of identification information for a user from an identification device or a physical trait of the user. The user interface device also receives a second type of identification information for the user from knowledge-based information provided by the user. The user interface device then determines that each type of identification information corresponds to the same authorized user within the process plant. When both types of identification information are for the same authorized user, the user is granted access to the user interface device. Accordingly, the user may execute functions on the user interface device to perform operations on a plant asset which is connected to the user interface device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: TODD M. TOEPKE, JOSEPH D. FISHER, CHRISTOPHER P. KANTZES, NEIL J. PETERSON
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Publication number: 20180027071Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Alden C. Russell, III, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
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Publication number: 20180026840Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, James R. Logerquist, Alan R. Dewey, Stephen Armstrong, Laura Briggs, Ronald Hempel
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Publication number: 20180025304Abstract: An industrial service device fleet management system implements an organized and easy to use methodology to manage the digital content stored on each of a plurality of portable or stationary devices used in a plant, such as portable maintenance devices, to assure that each of the portable devices receives or implements only the content that it is supposed to have and is upgraded at the appropriate time to include new content, features, etc. The fleet management system includes a memory for storing information related to the fleet of portable or stationary devices including device identifications, device descriptions, end user names and privileges, the current content of each of the portable devices, and templates defining configuration parameters for the portable or stationary devices. The system also includes a content downloader that obtains, stores, and downloads content (such as software and firmware upgrades, additional features, applications, drivers, knowledge articles, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Joseph D. Fisher, Todd M. Toepke, Nicholas T. Meyer
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Publication number: 20180027054Abstract: A platform-to-platform communication architecture for a process control messaging service in a process control system or other industrial setting allows stationary and portable industrial computing units to communicate with each other, in one-to-one and one-to-many communications, and across networks, including isolated networks inside the process control system or industrial setting and external networks. A requesting industrial computing device platform generates a message for a destination, or responding, industrial computing device in the communication protocol of the destination platform, and wraps the message in a communication protocol of the process control messaging service. The communication architecture decodes the wrapped message into the communication protocol of the destination industrial computing device and forwards the decoded wrapped message to the destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2016Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, James R. Logerquist, Joseph D. Fisher
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Patent number: 9805528Abstract: Techniques for controlling plant assets in a process plant include assigning permissions to users and user interface devices within the process plant, where the permissions specify a level of access to a plant asset. The permissions are then provided to the user interface devices. When a user connects a user interface device to a plant asset, the user interface device determines which operations the user may perform on the connected plant asset based on the permissions granted to the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Todd M. Toepke, Joseph D. Fisher, Christopher P. Kantzes, Nicholas T. Meyer
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Patent number: 4604358Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a plasminogen preparation which has been pasteurized to produce a hepatitis safe injectable plasminogen. The method comprises: adding to an aqueous solution of plasminogen the protective agent of methyl lysine ester, or ethyl lysine ester or a hydrochloride salt thereof which has antifibrinolytic acitivity to thereby attach the agent to plasminogen and form a modified plasminogen; and subjecting the resulting modified agent to a heat treatment of at least 60.degree. C. for at least 10 hours. Further, the protective agent may be separated from the modified plasminogen by affinity chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 1985Date of Patent: August 5, 1986Assignee: Armour Pharmaceutical CompanyInventors: Joseph D. Fisher, Chin C. Huang
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Patent number: 4486410Abstract: Antihemophilic factor (AHF), a blood component necessary for clotting of normal whole blood, is extracted from cryoprecipitate containing AHF and fibrinogen as its principal components by: rapidly raising and thereafter lowering the temperature of the cryoprecipitate suspension to selectively denature the fibrinogen in the suspension; and separating the AHF-rich supernatant from the denatured fibrinogen.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 1984Date of Patent: December 4, 1984Assignee: Armour Pharmaceutical CompanyInventor: Joseph D. Fisher
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Patent number: 4228154Abstract: Purified plasma albumin is obtained by ion exchange chromatographic procedures and in the absence of process steps involving precipitation or desorption of the albumin.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1979Date of Patent: October 14, 1980Assignee: Armour Pharmaceutical CompanyInventors: Joseph D. Fisher, Willie M. Curry, Michael E. Hrinda