Patents by Inventor Aaron Crews

Aaron Crews 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).

  • Gateway for Facilitating Control System Upgrades
    Publication number: 20240235893
    Abstract: Gateway devices, systems, and methods for facilitating control system upgrades including hosting a web application via a gateway device that permits configuration of the gateway device via a web browser. A redundant gateway system can be implemented such that both a primary gateway device and a secondary gateway device are used in conjunction. The web application can provide significant advantages in terms of ease of configurability and integration of legacy input/output (I/O) systems to facilitate control system upgrades in a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Crews, Duncan Schleiss, Nobin William, Marc Troy
  • Gateway for Facilitating Control System Upgrades
    Publication number: 20240137249
    Abstract: Gateway devices, systems, and methods for facilitating control system upgrades including hosting a web application via a gateway device that permits configuration of the gateway device via a web browser. A redundant gateway system can be implemented such that both a primary gateway device and a secondary gateway device are used in conjunction. The web application can provide significant advantages in terms of ease of configurability and integration of legacy input/output (I/O) systems to facilitate control system upgrades in a variety of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Crews, Duncan Schleiss, Nobin William, Marc Troy
  • Industrial control system hyperconverged architecture
    Patent number: 11846934
    Abstract: A hyperconverged industrial process control architecture is disclosed for controlling an industrial process within a physical process environment using a software-defined distributed control system (DCS) environment. The software-defined DCS environment may be implemented by virtualizing the hardware components of a DCS architecture on a server group to enable both software-defined process controllers and back-end DCS applications to run within the server group. This software-defined DCS network architecture reduces the hardware requirements of the process control system and reduces configuration complexity by implementing control components and higher-level components within a common environment within the server group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Nina Golder, Aaron Crews, Robert G. Halgren, III, Claudio Fayad
  • INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEM HYPERCONVERGED ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20210089015
    Abstract: A hyperconverged industrial process control architecture is disclosed for controlling an industrial process within a physical process environment using a software-defined distributed control system (DCS) environment. The software-defined DCS environment may be implemented by virtualizing the hardware components of a DCS architecture on a server group to enable both software-defined process controllers and back-end DCS applications to run within the server group. This software-defined DCS network architecture reduces the hardware requirements of the process control system and reduces configuration complexity by implementing control components and higher-level components within a common environment within the server group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Gary K. Law, Nina Golder, Aaron Crews, Robert G. Halgren, III, Claudio Fayad