Patents by Inventor David P. Rapini

David P. Rapini 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).

  • Method to automate historian configuration using controller based tag meta attribute
    Patent number: 10387392
    Abstract: An industrial control program development system allows a user to set metadata attributes for respective data items in the controller that indicate which of the data tags are to be monitored and collected by a separate industrial data historian system. When the industrial controller is deployed on a plant network, the data historian system reads the metadata attributes for the respective data items (e.g., data tags or data logs) defined in the controller and configures itself to collect and store data associated with the subset of data items that have been flagged for data collection. This system mitigates the need to manually configure the data historian with the identities of the data items that are to be monitored and collected for historical or reporting purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald E. Bliss, Anthony Carrara, Bruce T. McCleave, Jr., David P. Rapini, Michael John Pantaleano, Brian Alan Porter, Guangwen Sun, David Robert Curry, Ryan Cahalane
  • METHOD TO AUTOMATE HISTORIAN CONFIGURATION USING CONTROLLER BASED TAG META ATTRIBUTE
    Publication number: 20170337226
    Abstract: An industrial control program development system allows a user to set metadata attributes for respective data items in the controller that indicate which of the data tags are to be monitored and collected by a separate industrial data historian system. When the industrial controller is deployed on a plant network, the data historian system reads the metadata attributes for the respective data items (e.g., data tags or data logs) defined in the controller and configures itself to collect and store data associated with the subset of data items that have been flagged for data collection. This system mitigates the need to manually configure the data historian with the identities of the data items that are to be monitored and collected for historical or reporting purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald E. Bliss, Anthony Carrara, Bruce T. McCleave, JR., David P. Rapini, Michael John Pantaleano, Brian Alan Porter, Guangwen Sun, David Robert Curry, Ryan Cahalane