Patents by Inventor Ernani Sperandio Verissimo

Ernani Sperandio Verissimo 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).

  • Windows based network configuration and control method for a digital control system
    Patent number: 6095674
    Abstract: A system for configuring a process control system, e.g., a Fieldbus network, having intelligent field mounted devices coupled to a data communications bus. A software representation of the process control system to be configured is first designed on a computer. Using the system, a user selects representations of the various field mounted devices to be included in the actual control system. The user then specifies which function blocks of each field mounted device are to be used and how those function blocks are to be linked. The computer is then coupled to the communications bus of the actual control system via an interface device and the configuration and link data are downloaded to the field mounted devices of the control system. The computer can act as a bus master of the communications bus of the control system with the field mounted devices acting as slaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: SMAR Research Corporation
    Inventors: Ernani Sperandio Verissimo, Gerson Valentin, Marco A.O. Pagnano, Omar Sacilotto Donaires, Vanderlei L.D. Miranda
  • Windows based network configuration and control method for a digital control system
    Patent number: 5841654
    Abstract: A system for configuring a process control system, e.g., a Fieldbus network, having intelligent field mounted devices coupled to a data communications bus. A software representation of the process control system to be configured is first designed on a computer. Using the system, a user selects representations of the various field mounted devices to be included in the actual control system. The user then specifies which function blocks of each field mounted device are to be used and how those function blocks are to be linked. The computer is then coupled to the communications bus of the actual control system via an interface device and the configuration and link data are downloaded to the field mounted devices of the control system. The computer can act as a bus master of the communications bus of the control system with the field mounted devices acting as slaves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: SMAR Research Corporation
    Inventors: Ernani Sperandio Verissimo, Gerson Valentin, Marco A. O. Pagnano, Omar Sacilotto Donaires, Vanderlei L. D. Miranda