Patents by Inventor Francisco P. Maturana

Francisco P. Maturana 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: 11977368
    Abstract: A system may include a data delivery pipeline communicatively coupled to one or more microservices that receive a dataset transmitted through the data delivery pipeline. The system may also include a first microservice that receives a first dataset corresponding to operation technology (OT) data or information technology (IT) data and determines a second dataset based on the first dataset. The system may also include a second microservice that receives the second dataset from the first microservice via the data delivery pipeline, determines an action to perform in an industrial automation component of an industrial automation system based on an analysis of the second dataset, and transmits the action to the industrial automation component via the data delivery pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Francisco P. Maturana
  • Publication number: 20240134362
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. To reduce dependency on custom-built parsers for each type of document format, the system integrating both custom and general parsing mechanisms into a scalable parser orchestration engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Meiling He, Raja Sekhar Katuri, Dennis J. Luo, Brian Taylor, Sachin Misra, Jay W. Schiele
  • Publication number: 20240134358
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. To reduce dependency on custom-built parsers for each type of document format, the system integrating both custom and general parsing mechanisms into a scalable parser orchestration engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Meiling He, Raja Sekhar Katuri, Dennis J. Luo, Brian Taylor, Sachin Misra, Jay W. Schiele
  • Patent number: 11853311
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. The system allows participants in the ecosystem to browse the hierarchical model to view information about the manufacturing entities, their plant facilities, and the packages assigned to the respective facilities. The system offers filtered role-specific views of the technology transfer documents, their approval statuses, and their plant assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Sachin Misra, Brian Taylor, Dennis J Luo, Jay W Schiele
  • Publication number: 20230342435
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive telemetry data representing usage of one or more software assets by one or more industrial automation devices within an industrial automation system operated by an enterprise, reference a local blockchain that is a private extension of a global decentralized blockchain to determine one or more licenses associated with the one or more software assets, determine one or more usage parameters for the one or more software assets based on the telemetry data and the one or more licenses, update the local blockchain and the global decentralized blockchain based on the and the usage parameters, and enable usage of the one or more software assets by the one or more industrial automation devices based on the one or more usage parameters and one or more thresholds defined by the one or more licenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Nikhil Ashok Patange, Krutika Kansara, Francisco P. Maturana, David Picou, Raja Sekhar Katuri, Joseph Weller, Hanna Strohm
  • Publication number: 20230344810
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, from one or more processing nodes, data representative of usage and inventory of one or more software assets by one or more industrial automation devices of an industrial automation system that are communicatively coupled to the one or more processing nodes, determining a data delta for the industrial automation system that represents differences between the software asset data and a previous iteration of the software asset data, encrypt the data delta for the industrial automation system, and transmit the encrypted data delta for the industrial automation system to a remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: David Picou, Francisco P. Maturana, Jay W. Schiele, Krutika Kansara, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Larry D. Armstrong, Kerwen Changyuan Zhang, John L. Kelly, Davis Biao Ma
  • Patent number: 11783725
    Abstract: A cloud-based operator training system includes a snapshot management architecture, which provides a hybrid system for generation of control system level scenarios and system-state snapshots, and which can improve the fidelity of a training simulation. By implementing the simulation system on a cloud platform, the system can generate a large and growing set of snapshot files representing various control states and corresponding process states. These files can then be leverage during operator training sessions to yield high fidelity simulated system operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Bryan N. Siafakas, Andrew R. Stump, Ryan Cahalane, Alexander B. Cherpakov
  • Publication number: 20230297584
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. The system allows participants in the ecosystem to browse the hierarchical model to view information about the manufacturing entities, their plant facilities, and the packages assigned to the respective facilities. The system offers filtered role-specific views of the technology transfer documents, their approval statuses, and their plant assignments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Sachin Misra, Brian Taylor, Dennis J Luo, Jay W Schiele
  • Publication number: 20230274215
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. The system allows participants in the ecosystem to browse the hierarchical model to view information about the manufacturing entities, their plant facilities, and the packages assigned to the respective facilities. The system offers filtered role-specific views of the technology transfer documents, their approval statuses, and their plant assignments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Sachin Misra, Brian Taylor, Dennis J. Luo, Jay W. Schiele
  • Publication number: 20230273588
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. The system allows participants in the ecosystem to browse the hierarchical model to view information about the manufacturing entities, their plant facilities, and the packages assigned to the respective facilities. The system offers filtered role-specific views of the technology transfer documents, their approval statuses, and their plant assignments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Sachin Misra, Brian Taylor, Dennis J Luo, Jay W Schiele
  • Publication number: 20230237371
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and methods for providing machine learning of supervised and unsupervised data by: receiving a set of industrial data associated with one or more industrial components within an industrial system; generating a classification for each of the set of industrial data using each of a set of models; generating an evaluation value for each of the set of models based on the classifications for each industrial data; and selecting one or more models according to the evaluation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Meiling He, Francisco P, Maturana, Dennis J. Luo, Robert Nunoo, Jay W. Schiele
  • Patent number: 11687493
    Abstract: A digital technology transfer system transforms technology transfer documents to a set of digitized manufacturing procedures and operations documentation. The system can transform a technology transfer document to a hierarchical structured model representing a package, or product to be manufactured, and the process for manufacturing the product. The resulting package model can be integrated into a larger model representing an ecosystem of manufacturing entities and plant facilities by assigning steps of the manufacturing process to one or more selected production lines. The system allows participants in the ecosystem to browse the hierarchical model to view information about the manufacturing entities, their plant facilities, and the packages assigned to the respective facilities. The system offers filtered role-specific views of the technology transfer documents, their approval statuses, and their plant assignments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Sachin Misra, Brian Taylor, Dennis J Luo, Jay W Schiele
  • Patent number: 11687504
    Abstract: Data reduction services are implemented on one or more nodes of an IIoT data pipeline to intelligently determine an appropriate data reduction strategy based on characteristics of the incoming data. In one or more embodiments, data reduction components on the pipeline node or on an edge device define different data filtering rules or algorithms that are selectively applied to streaming time-series data based on a probability distribution of the data. The data pipeline node performs real-time distribution analysis on the streaming data to determine whether the data has a unimodal distribution, a multimodal distribution, or no mode, and selects one of the data filtering rules based on this determined probability distribution. In this way, the data is intelligently reduced in a manner that retains critical information within the reduced data set while achieving a high level of data reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Jinghui Luo, Francisco P. Maturana, Robert Nunoo, Jay W Schiele, Braun C. Brennecke
  • Patent number: 11676055
    Abstract: A monitor provides run time monitoring of the input values to a signature analyzer having a machine-learning engine to compare statistics measuring the domain of those input values to the domain of input values used in the training set of the machine-learning engine. This comparison yields an indication of whether retraining of the machine-learning engine is required without analysis of the output of the machine-learning engine algorithm or the need for errors to become manifest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Gregory J. Vance, Mikica Cvijetinovic, Braun C. Brennecke
  • Patent number: 11586176
    Abstract: An industrial data pipeline architecture described supports annotation of raw data streams into scalable and durable cloud-level storage. A dynamic data mapping process collects industrial data from data tags that have been annotated with metadata indicating that the tags are to be made available for visualization, and connects data from these tags to a data aggregator object of a node-level or edge-level visualization tool. The data aggregator object dynamically adjusts its data collection footprint to include the annotated data tags, which are dynamically associated with the physical layout of the industrial equipment in the visualization. Visualization objects for a specified plant configuration act as data context containers that can be added to a plant visualization panel, and allows the annotated tags to be selected to build visualizations of selected data items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Krutika Sanjay Kansara, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Jay W Schiele
  • Patent number: 11582127
    Abstract: A reactive buffering system for use in IIoT data pipelines dynamically adjusts data accumulation and delivery by a node of a pipeline based on aggregated downstream metrics representing current data processing latencies of downstream nodes. Based on these downstream performance metrics, a reactive node that adjusts the size of the next data batch to be sent to an adjacent downstream node. The nodes of the data pipeline are configured to support a request-response based handshaking protocol whereby the nodes that send data to downstream nodes maintain up-to-date performance level information from adjacent downstream nodes. With this performance information, together with pipeline priorities, the sending node (or reactive node) adjusts the transmission rate and intermediate buffering of data. In this way, the nodes of the pipeline can dynamically regulate interim data storage to avoid overwhelming the pipeline system with too much data during periods of high latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Dennis Jinghui Luo, Robert Nunoo, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Krutika Sanjay Kansara, Jay W. Schiele
  • Publication number: 20230020485
    Abstract: A monitor provides run time monitoring of the input values to a signature analyzer having a machine-learning engine to compare statistics measuring the domain of those input values to the domain of input values used in the training set of the machine-learning engine. This comparison yields an indication of whether retraining of the machine-learning engine is required without analysis of the output of the machine-learning engine algorithm or the need for errors to become manifest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Gregory J. Vance, Mikica Cvijetinovic, Braun C. Brennecke
  • Publication number: 20220334557
    Abstract: An industrial data pipeline architecture described supports annotation of raw data streams into scalable and durable cloud-level storage. A dynamic data mapping process collects industrial data from data tags that have been annotated with metadata indicating that the tags are to be made available for visualization, and connects data from these tags to a data aggregator object of a node-level or edge-level visualization tool. The data aggregator object dynamically adjusts its data collection footprint to include the annotated data tags, which are dynamically associated with the physical layout of the industrial equipment in the visualization. Visualization objects for a specified plant configuration act as data context containers that can be added to a plant visualization panel, and allows the annotated tags to be selected to build visualizations of selected data items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Krutika Sanjay Kansara, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Jay W Schiele
  • Patent number: 11468353
    Abstract: A monitor provides run time monitoring of the input values to a signature analyzer having a machine-learning engine to compare statistics measuring the domain of those input values to the domain of input values used in the training set of the machine-learning engine. This comparison yields an indication of whether retraining of the machine-learning engine is required without analysis of the output of the machine-learning engine algorithm or the need for errors to become manifest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Gregory J. Vance, Mikica Cvijetinovic, Braun C. Brennecke
  • Publication number: 20220311689
    Abstract: A reactive buffering system for use in IIoT data pipelines dynamically adjusts data accumulation and delivery by a node of a pipeline based on aggregated downstream metrics representing current data processing latencies of downstream nodes. Based on these downstream performance metrics, a reactive node that adjusts the size of the next data batch to be sent to an adjacent downstream node. The nodes of the data pipeline are configured to support a request-response based handshaking protocol whereby the nodes that send data to downstream nodes maintain up-to-date performance level information from adjacent downstream nodes. With this performance information, together with pipeline priorities, the sending node (or reactive node) adjusts the transmission rate and intermediate buffering of data. In this way, the nodes of the pipeline can dynamically regulate interim data storage to avoid overwhelming the pipeline system with too much data during periods of high latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Francisco P. Maturana, Dennis Jinghui Luo, Robert Nunoo, Nikhil Ashok Patange, Krutika Sanjay Kansara, JAY W. SCHIELE