Patents Assigned to Compass Technology, Inc.
  • Method and apparatus for providing a dynamically programmable field controller
    Patent number: 6925337
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed that provides a process whereby the parameters and/or functions of a hardware field device, e.g., field controller, can be altered dynamically by the use of a downloadable data table. This programming method is being called “Full Dynamic Linking” (abbreviated as FDL), and provides a mechanism by which software and firmware is written in such a way as to provide extreme flexibility in the application of control processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Compass Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: William Roe