Patents by Inventor Felix Kaufmann

Felix Kaufmann 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).

  • Programming device for a stored-program controller
    Patent number: 4710863
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a programming device for a stored-program controller, in which the control program of the controller, containing function calls and stored in a machine-readable form, is displayed in function-diagram representation on a graphical display device by the operating system of a digital computer contained in the programming device. The invention proposes operations in the operating system of the digital computer by means of which the prerequisites are created for the automatic generation of function-diagram representations in which signal branchings and signal intersections are permissible and which, therefore, have a considerably higher information content than the purely hierarchically structured function-diagram representations hitherto generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1987
    Assignee: BBC Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited
    Inventors: Felix Kaufmann, Daniel Schillinger