Patents by Inventor Benjamin Lutz

Benjamin Lutz 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: 20220294636
    Abstract: A client-server architecture for a control system of a technical installation, wherein the client-server architecture includes at least one first device formed as a client and at least one second device that formed as a server assigned to the client, where the client is configured to establish contact with the server, and is configured to execute a code received from the server, communication from the client to the control system exists via the server which is configured to detect whether the code, which the client executes, corresponds to the code that the client received from the server, and where the server, in the event of the code not corresponding, is further configured to interrupt the execution of the code by the client and lock the client out of communication with the control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LUTZ, Anna PALMIN
  • Patent number: 11442436
    Abstract: A method and technical module in a technical installation, which includes at least one technical function and which is configured for integration into a higher-level control level of the technical installation, wherein functional rights relating to the at least one technical function are stored in the technical module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Benjamin Lutz, Anna Palmin
  • Patent number: 11444934
    Abstract: An automation system includes at least one automation unit, multiple automation servers and a central management unit interconnected via a communication network, wherein the automation servers communicate with the automation unit using a pre validated certificate of the automation unit, where in order to validate the certificate, the automation servers check a chain of trust of the respective certificate and, by accessing a black list, the validity thereof, where communication of the respective chain of trust only occurs when corresponding chains of trust are revoked from all other automation servers beforehand, corresponding certificates are entered into the black list or the certificate is otherwise invalid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Benjamin Lutz, Anna Palmin
  • Publication number: 20220269243
    Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, in particular a process or manufacturing plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the operator station server includes a computer implemented visualization service that transmits a plant mimic diagram to the operator station client that visually presents the plant mimic diagram to an operator of the control system, where a digital process image of the technical plant is implemented on the operator station server, the operator station server additionally enables the operator to continuously monitor a runtime operator specifiable state of an operator-specifiable measuring device of the technical plant, where the operator station server additionally notifies the operator of a state change of the measuring device, independently of a visual presentation of the plant mimic diagram, and where the measuring device state is obtainable from the digital process image of the technical plant implemented on the operator station server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220236719
    Abstract: A control system for a technical plant, in particular a process or production plant, includes an operator station server and an engineering station server, wherein the engineering station server includes a computer-implemented design tool via which an automation configuration for an automation of the technical plant can be created, and wherein the engineering station server transmits the automation configuration for operating and monitoring the technical plant to the operator station server, where operator station server of the control system refuses, for a specific period of time, receipt or processing of the automation configuration for the operation and monitoring of the technical plant if an abort condition is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220229425
    Abstract: A method for visual representation of a facility mimic diagram of a technical facility, in particular a process or manufacturing facility, which has an operator station server, an engineering station server and an operator station client, wherein a) a facility mimic diagram of the technical facility is transferred from the operator station server to the operator station client, b) visually limiting representation of the facility mimic diagram by the operator station client, and c) automatically notifying the engineering station server about the limitation of the visual representation of the facility mimic diagram set by the operator station client via a message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220229429
    Abstract: A method for visually displaying a facility mimic diagram of a technical facility which has an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the method includes transferring the facility mimic diagram from the operator station server to the operator station client, where the facility mimic diagram includes an alarm signal indicator, communicating a duration for visually displaying the indicator, visually displaying the facility mimic diagram with the alarm signal indicator, informing the operator station client about an emergence of a new alarm signal in the management system via a message, determining a value an actual display time has to visually display the alarm signal indicator, determining whether a display time for the visual display of the alarm signal indicator with the new alarm signal would overshoot the value of the duration, limiting the visual display of the alarm signal indicator when the available duration is overshot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Lutz, Georg Kluge
  • Publication number: 20220197257
    Abstract: An operator station server of a control system of a process engineering plant, wherein the server includes a computer-implemented process image that has, for a runtime of the process engineering plant, at least one first computer-implemented process object and a second computer-implemented process object which are each associated with a technical object of the process engineering plant and are operatively connected to same, where two associated technical objects are operatively connected within the process engineering plant, and where the first process object has a reference to the second process object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220187816
    Abstract: A method for handling security alarms by a control system of a technical installation includes a) receiving diagnostic messages that have been generated by technical objects (7) of a technical installation; b) analyzing the diagnostic messages such that diagnostic messages relevant to the security of an operation of the technical installation are identified by means of comparative data records, where a machine learning network is used to analyze the diagnostic messages to assess the security relevance of the diagnostic messages, where the network is previously trained using special inputs from operators of the technical installation that have assessed past diagnostic messages with regard to their security relevance; c) if necessary, adapting the previously identified diagnostic messages to requirements of a computer-implemented security module of the technical installation and d) transmitting the previously identified and optionally adapted diagnostic messages to the computer-implemented security module of th
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LUTZ, Anna PALMIN
  • Publication number: 20220187801
    Abstract: Industrial automation system with a system for embedding a web application to be embedded in a surrounding web application and method for embedding a web application into a surrounding web application, wherein the web application to be embedded is provided to run in a separate execution and display region of the surrounding web application, the web application to be embedded is provided by at least two web servers so as to increase redundancy, monitoring capability and operability and therefore fault tolerance, to reduce complexity, to reduce communication traffic and to obtain improved options for access restriction for personnel, particularly in large industrial automation systems, such as process control systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Patent number: 11360650
    Abstract: A control system of a technical installation includes an operator station client and an operator station server that has a visualization service and stored object models of technical objects of the technical installation and generates an XY trend diagram with an operating point visualized in the XY trend diagram from a first measurement value associated with the first technical object and a second measurement value associated with the second technical object, and transmits the XY trend diagram with the operating point to the operator station client via the visualization service, wherein the XY trend diagram and/or the operating point has a reference to an object model, the operating point is influenceable by the technical object underlying the referenced object model, and an operator of the operator station client is visually presented with the referenced object model via the visualization service when selecting the operating point in the XY trend diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Benjamin Lutz
  • Publication number: 20220179405
    Abstract: A method for virtually testing a system control process for a process engineering system and a simulation device for virtually testing the system control process, wherein at least one preconfigured control module for controlling a component of the system is provided and the system control process is generated based on this control module and the control of the process engineering system is additionally simulated by the generated system control process, where at least one value of an input parameter of the system control process is predefined by a component-specific simulation model, and where the component-specific simulation model is contained in the preconfigured control module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220163953
    Abstract: A method for engineering an automation system that is usually tested before being put into operation, wherein a “twin” or a virtual component is generated and loaded onto a server for each real component to perform the function of the real components in a simulated manner in place of said real components, such that it is thus possible for a user to replace various real components with virtual components during the engineering process and to check or simulate the function of the automation system, where it becomes possible to perform a synchronous optimization of automation systems or to put automation programs and system displays into operation in a coexistent, safe, flexible, and incremental manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20220138303
    Abstract: A control system for a technical installation includes a certification body, first and second installation components, wherein the certification body issues/revokes certificates for the first and second installation components, where a certificate revocation list service receives from the certification body a certificate revocation list having certificates already revoked by the certification body and provides the certificate revocation list to the components, a certificate revocation list distribution service implemented on the first and second installation components receives the certificate revocation list from the certificate revocation list service and stores the certificate revocation list in a storage device of the respective installation component, and where the certificate revocation list distribution service of an installation component additionally in each case connects to the certificate revocation list distribution service on another installation component and receives the certificate revocation
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LUTZ, Anna PALMIN
  • Publication number: 20220128966
    Abstract: A method for controlling a technical system via a control system, wherein the control system, after processing a request from an operator, generates a response message to the request such that if a faulty state of the technical system occurs, then associated fault messages are linked in an automated manner to the request and the response message in the time between the request and the generation of the response message, and a corresponding item of information relating thereto is presented to the operator, where the link between the request, response message and fault messages is provided with a digital signature of the operator who made the request to the control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LUTZ, Anna PALMIN
  • Publication number: 20220123951
    Abstract: A control system for a technical installation includes at least one certification authority and installation components, wherein the certification authority issues and revokes certificates and creates a certificate revocation list of already revoked certificates that can be distributed in the control system, where a certificate revocation list service is implemented which is configured to distribute the certificate revocation list to the installation component, installation components each comprise a local storage device in which filing of the previously distributed certificate revocation list is possible, and where the certificate revocation list service determines a revocation reason, and depending on the revocation reason, removal of a previously distributed certificate revocation list stored on the respective local storage device of the installation components is triggered such that after performance of the revocation storage of a newly created certificate revocation list in the respective local storage d
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin LUTZ, Anna PALMIN
  • Publication number: 20220075339
    Abstract: A process monitoring system includes a control unit connected to a server that includes an alarm household, an alarm list that includes alarm messages and a visualization service that includes a variable household, wherein the visualization service is configured to supply the control unit with process values and alarm messages, the first control unit is configured to indicate a process object with its process values in an input/output window and indicate a message sequence display with alarm messages, the input/output window includes an input field and activation area, a manager creates an alarm instance for a process object assigned to the input field when a short message is input and an activation area is activated, and the first control unit stores the assigned short message as a further alarm message in the alarm list, where the message sequence display is extended to indicate the further alarm messages as short messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20210364993
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for representing operator control information in the context of operator control and monitoring of a technical installation is proposed, which has at least one operator station server and one operator station client, wherein at least one measurement value of at least one technical object of the technical installation is received via the operator station server, a trend progression of the measurement value is generated in the event that an alarm, which relates to the measurement value, occurs in the operator station server, the trend progression from the operator station server is transferred to the operator station client, and the trend progression is visually presented to an operator of the technical installation in a trend progression diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventor: Benjamin LUTZ
  • Patent number: D942984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Benjamin Lutz
  • Patent number: D942995
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Benjamin Lutz