Patents by Inventor Mark V. BROWN

Mark V. BROWN 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).

  • VIRTUAL CONTROLLER DEPLOYED ON INTRINSICALLY SAFE FIELD DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240118679
    Abstract: An Intrinsically Safe (IS) Advanced Physical Layer (APL) based low power field device having a virtual controller implemented thereon. The virtual controller provides distributed control and one or more of historian, workstation, and HMI functionality on the field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry K. Brown, Mark V. Bertolina, Harikrishnan Baskaran, Briane Ritchie, Ashutosh Diliprao Katke
  • LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND HIGH AVAILABILITY OVER ETHERNET ADVANCED PHYSICAL LAYER
    Publication number: 20240121195
    Abstract: An Ethernet Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL) bridge system between an edge field device and an industrial network. The bridge system includes at least one Ethernet-APL switch and a plurality of redundant physical Ethernet-APL 10BaseT1L ports coupled to the at least one switch providing improved load distribution and high availability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Allan Chaney, Mark V. Bertolina, Briane Ritchie, Larry K. Brown
  • Submersible foliage planter and method of using same
    Patent number: 10064343
    Abstract: A submersible foliage planter includes a growing medium; and a container including an inner pouch of fine porous material which encloses the growing medium therein and an outer pouch of course porous material which encloses the inner pouch therein, wherein the coarse porous material has an average pore size larger than that of the fine porous material, the fine porous material and course porous material are permeable by water and by a root system of an aquatic plant, and the course porous material is water insoluble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Inventor: Mark V. Brown
  • SUBMERSIBLE FOLIAGE PLANTER AND METHOD OF USING SAME
    Publication number: 20160037732
    Abstract: A submersible foliage planter includes a growing medium; and a container including an inner pouch of fine porous material which encloses the growing medium therein and an outer pouch of course porous material which encloses the inner pouch therein, wherein the coarse porous material has an average pore size larger than that of the fine porous material, the fine porous material and course porous material are permeable by water and by a root system of an aquatic plant, and the course porous material is water insoluble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventor: Mark V. BROWN