Patents by Inventor Francisco Mendoza

Francisco Mendoza 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).

  • Patent number: 11940778
    Abstract: A method of commissioning a field device in an industrial system network includes: a) connecting a field device to an industrial system network; c) providing information about the field device, the information including functional information for the field device; d) utilizing the functional information for the field device to retrieve information relating to a role of the field device in an automation application; f) utilizing capability information relating to a field device type of the field device and the information relating to the role of the field device in the automation application to retrieve a parameter set for the field device for operation in the automation application; and g) downloading the parameter set to the field device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Roland Braun, Francisco Mendoza, Dirk Schulz, Heiko Koziolek, Andreas Burger
  • Patent number: 11870848
    Abstract: A server, control circuit, or method for controlling an OPC UA Server includes receiving a request for data from an OPC UA Client, determining whether the request and/or the data requires a slow data access or a fast data access by a hardware implemented control circuit of the OPC UA Server; obtaining first data from a memory unit of the OPC UA Server when the request and/or the data requires the slow data access; obtaining second data from an second address space of the control circuit when the request and/or the data requires the fast data access; and sending the obtained first or second data to the OPC UA Client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Roland Braun, Philipp Bauer, Francisco Mendoza
  • Publication number: 20230333540
    Abstract: A method for providing a controlling frontend for an operating device configured for operating a field device includes providing an operational frame, wherein the operational frame serves as a generic user interface and is based on a companion specification; reading a field device specification from a database, wherein the field device specification comprises a structured set of field device attributes, which are related to the operating elements; and generating, based on the field device specification and the operational frame, a structured set of display elements for the controlling frontend, wherein at least some of the display elements of the controlling frontend are connected to the operating elements of the field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Roland Braun, Francisco Mendoza, Tilo Merlin, Thomas Gamer, Mario Hoernicke
  • Publication number: 20220321652
    Abstract: A server, control circuit, or method for controlling an OPC UA Server includes receiving a request for data from an OPC UA Client, determining whether the request and/or the data requires a slow data access or a fast data access by a hardware implemented control circuit of the OPC UA Server; obtaining first data from a memory unit of the OPC UA Server when the request and/or the data requires the slow data access; obtaining second data from an second address space of the control circuit when the request and/or the data requires the fast data access; and sending the obtained first or second data to the OPC UA Client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Roland Braun, Philipp Bauer, Francisco Mendoza
  • Publication number: 20210286346
    Abstract: A method of commissioning a field device in an industrial system network includes: a) connecting a field device to an industrial system network; c) providing information about the field device, the information including functional information for the field device; d) utilizing the functional information for the field device to retrieve information relating to a role of the field device in an automation application; f) utilizing capability information relating to a field device type of the field device and the information relating to the role of the field device in the automation application to retrieve a parameter set for the field device for operation in the automation application; and g) downloading the parameter set to the field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Roland Braun, Francisco Mendoza, Dirk Schulz, Heiko Koziolek, Andreas Burger
  • Patent number: 11043210
    Abstract: There is provided a speech classification apparatus for hearing devices with electroencephalography, EEG, dependent sound processing, comprising a sound processing unit configured to capturing sound input signals from at least one external microphone and segmenting said captured sound input signals into segmented sound signals, a speech classification unit comprising a speech cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate a speech cepstrum for each segmented sound signal, an EEG cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate an EEG cepstrum for an EEG signal of a user's brain, a mapping unit configured to select a predetermined number of coefficients from each calculated sound cepstrum and from the calculated EEG cepstrum, and a correlation unit configured to calculate a correlation value for each captured sound input signal based on a correlation of the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the respective calculated sound cepstrum with the predetermined number of selected coefficients from
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: OTICON A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Carina Graversen, Emina Alickovic, Carlos Francisco Mendoza Lara, Andrew Segar
  • Publication number: 20200005770
    Abstract: There is provided a speech classification apparatus for hearing devices with electroencephalography, EEG, dependent sound processing, comprising a sound processing unit configured to capturing sound input signals from at least one external microphone and segmenting said captured sound input signals into segmented sound signals, a speech classification unit comprising a speech cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate a speech cepstrum for each segmented sound signal, an EEG cepstrum calculation unit configured to calculate an EEG cepstrum for an EEG signal of a user's brain, a mapping unit configured to select a predetermined number of coefficients from each calculated sound cepstrum and from the calculated EEG cepstrum, and a correlation unit configured to calculate a correlation value for each captured sound input signal based on a correlation of the predetermined number of selected coefficients from the respective calculated sound cepstrum with the predetermined number of selected coefficients from
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Thomas Lunner, Carina Graversen, Emina Alickovic, Carlos Francisco Mendoza Lara, Andrew Segar