Patents by Inventor Benjamin J. Jackman

Benjamin J. Jackman 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).

  • Search results display in a process control system
    Patent number: 11768878
    Abstract: To provide search capabilities in a process control system, a contextual knowledge repository is generated that organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the contextual knowledge repository which is responsive to the process plant search query. The search results are then presented on a user interface device based on the identified data set. To allow for searches to be performed by user interface devices external to the process plant, a data diode is disposed between a field-facing component and an edge-facing component of the process plant so that data flows from the field-facing component to the edge-facing component without flowing from the edge-facing component to the field-facing component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Peter Hartmann, Richard Clarence Dayo Fabros, Anthony Amaro, Jr., John M. Caldwell, Mariana C. Dionisio, Benjamin J. Jackman
  • Search Results Display in a Process Control System
    Publication number: 20210089593
    Abstract: To provide search capabilities in a process control system, a contextual knowledge repository is generated that organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the contextual knowledge repository which is responsive to the process plant search query. The search results are then presented on a user interface device based on the identified data set. To allow for searches to be performed by user interface devices external to the process plant, a data diode is disposed between a field-facing component and an edge-facing component of the process plant so that data flows from the field-facing component to the edge-facing component without flowing from the edge-facing component to the field-facing component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Peter Hartmann, Richard Clarence Dayo Fabros, Anthony Amaro, JR., John M. Caldwell, Mariana C. Dionisio, Benjamin J. Jackman