Patents by Inventor Doyle E. Broom

Doyle E. Broom 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).

  • Automatic receiving, inspection, inventory management and reporting using wireless communications
    Patent number: 8452675
    Abstract: A system for managing an inventory of process control devices in a process plant includes a computer workstation, a database storing instrument specification data for one or more process control devices used for controlling a process performed in the process plant environment, a wireless gateway adapted to wirelessly communicate with wireless enabled process control devices in the process plant environment, a communication bus interconnecting the wireless gateway, the computer workstation, and the database, an inventory control application executed by the computer workstation. The inventory control application is adapted to interrogate a received process control device via the wireless gateway to receive device data from the received process control device identifying and describing the received process control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Doyle E. Broom
  • AUTOMATIC RECEIVING, INSPECTION, INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND REPORTING USING WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS
    Publication number: 20120035746
    Abstract: A system for managing an inventory of process control devices in a process plant includes a computer workstation, a database storing instrument specification data for one or more process control devices used for controlling a process performed in the process plant environment, a wireless gateway adapted to wirelessly communicate with wireless enabled process control devices in the process plant environment, a communication bus interconnecting the wireless gateway, the computer workstation, and the database, an inventory control application executed by the computer workstation. The inventory control application is adapted to interrogate a received process control device via the wireless gateway to receive device data from the received process control device identifying and describing the received process control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Doyle E. Broom
  • Topology analysis tool for use in analyzing a process control network design
    Patent number: 6411923
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an analysis tool for aiding in the design of a process control system which conforms to a standard protocol. Such a tool advantageously allows the efficient design of a process control system while ensuring that the physical characteristics of the system conform to the standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Wade C. Stewart, David M. Hyde, Deborah R. Colclazier, Doyle E. Broom