Patents by Inventor Mark Joseph Weiland

Mark Joseph Weiland 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).

  • Saving and restoring controller state and context in an open operating system
    Patent number: 6901298
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and methodology for saving and restoring controller state and context in an industrial controller. In an aspect of the invention, the industrial controller has a memory module having at least RAM and flash memory. Savings of the state and context is accomplished through writing an image of the RAM to flash memory prior to the power being removed from the RAM. Restoring is accomplished through writing the RAM image in the flash memory back to the RAM after the RAM has been energized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2005
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Subbian Govindaraj, Shelly Lynn Urdaneta, Steven Mark Cisler, Mark Joseph Weiland