Patents by Inventor Bart Van Loon

Bart Van Loon 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).

  • Publication number: 20250258482
    Abstract: A system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12) including at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is associated with a secure network (20) and communicatively coupled to an interface (26) for providing process or asset specific data or process applications to an external processing layer (30), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is configured to add a transfer tag to the process or asset specific data or to the process application and to provide the process or asset specific data or the process application based on the transfer tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Jan De Caigny, Bart Van Loon, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Patent number: 12346097
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12), wherein the system (10) comprises a first processing layer (14) associated with the chemical plant (12) and communicatively coupled to a second processing layer (16), wherein the first processing layer (14) and the second processing layer (16) are configured in a secure network (18, 20), wherein the first processing layer (14) provides process or asset specific data (22) of the chemical plant (12) to the second processing layer (16), wherein the second processing layer (16) is configured to contextualize process or asset specific data to generate plant specific data and to provide plant specific data (24) of one or more chemical plant(s) (12) to an interface (26) to an external network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Bart Van Loon, Jan De Caigny, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Patent number: 12298743
    Abstract: A system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12) including at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is associated with a secure network (20) and communicatively coupled to an interface (26) for providing process or asset specific data or process applications to an external processing layer (30), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is configured to add a transfer tag to the process or asset specific data or to the process application and to provide the process or asset specific data or the process application based on the transfer tag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jan De Caigny, Bart Van Loon, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Publication number: 20240402684
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12), wherein the system (10) comprises a first processing layer (14) associated with the chemical plant (12) and communicatively coupled to a second processing layer (16), wherein the first processing layer (14) and the second processing layer (16) are configured in a secure network (18, 20), wherein the first processing layer (14) provides process or asset specific data (22) of the chemical plant (12) to the second processing layer (16), wherein the second processing layer (16) is configured to contextualize process or asset specific data to generate plant specific data and to provide plant specific data (24) of one or more chemical plant(s) (12) to an interface (26) to an external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Bart Van Loon, Jan De Caigny, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Publication number: 20230047700
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12), wherein the system (10) comprises a first processing layer (14) associated with the chemical plant (12) and communicatively coupled to a second processing layer (16), wherein the first processing layer (14) and the second processing layer (16) are configured in a secure network (18, 20), wherein the first processing layer (14) provides process or asset specific data (22) of the chemical plant (12) to the second processing layer (16), wherein the second processing layer (16) is configured to contextualize process or asset specific data to generate plant specific data and to provide plant specific data (24) of one or more chemical plant(s) (12) to an interface (26) to an external network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bart Van Loon, Jan De Caigny, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel
  • Publication number: 20230009093
    Abstract: A system (10) for monitoring and/or controlling one or more chemical plant(s) (12) including at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is associated with a secure network (20) and communicatively coupled to an interface (26) for providing process or asset specific data or process applications to an external processing layer (30), wherein the at least one processing layer (14, 16, 32, 34) is configured to add a transfer tag to the process or asset specific data or to the process application and to provide the process or asset specific data or the process application based on the transfer tag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Jan De Caigny, Bart Van Loon, Sebastian Gau, Daniel Engel