Patents by Inventor Steve Royston

Steve Royston 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).

  • Optimized method for sorting alarms
    Patent number: 10831748
    Abstract: A method for sorting alarm-messages of a plant having at least one alarm-area each having at least two plant-devices connected by at least one connection, wherein the at least one alarm-area is defined so that the plant-devices and the respective connection provide a directed graph, involves: providing at least one database containing alarm-data and topology-data; wherein the topology-data describe a directed graph having at least one connection with a related flow direction between the respective plant-devices of the respective assigned alarm-area; generating at least one partly complete first alarm-order of the alarm-messages of the at least one alarm-area by sorting the alarm-messages according to the flow direction of the directed graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Mario Hoernicke, Martin Hollender, Steve Royston
  • OPTIMIZED METHOD FOR SORTING ALARMS
    Publication number: 20160371327
    Abstract: A method for sorting alarm-messages of a plant having at least one alarm-area each having at least two plant-devices connected by at least one connection, wherein the at least one alarm-area is defined so that the plant-devices and the respective connection provide a directed graph, involves: providing at least one database containing alarm-data and topology-data; wherein the topology-data describe a directed graph having at least one connection with a related flow direction between the respective plant-devices of the respective assigned alarm-area; generating at least one partly complete first alarm-order of the alarm-messages of the at least one alarm-area by sorting the alarm-messages according to the flow direction of the directed graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Mario Hoernicke, Martin Hollender, Steve Royston