Patents by Inventor Frank Konopka

Frank Konopka 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: 12039081
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for providing data from an industrial automation arrangement to an external application operated in a data cloud and arranged outside a first data network, where an industrial Edge device processes raw data from the data source and makes the processed data available to the external application, the external application transmits a work order to the gateway component, the work order is checked by the gateway component, the raw data are captured and processed according to the work order, and the processed, abstracted and/or anonymized data are provided to the external application or a destination defined in the work order, such that an external user can automatically control access and hence use the data without accessing the underlying raw data because the level of data access is automatically negotiated and produced between the components involved (data source, gateway component) while taking into account requirements and rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marcus Fehling, Frank Konopka, Tobias Lamm, Burkhard Tolks, Peter Welp
  • Publication number: 20220245281
    Abstract: A method and arrangement for providing data from an industrial automation arrangement to an external application operated in a data cloud and arranged outside a first data network, where an industrial Edge device processes raw data from the data source and makes the processed data available to the external application, the external application transmits a work order to the gateway component, the work order is checked by the gateway component, the raw data are captured and processed according to the work order, and the processed, abstracted and/or anonymized data are provided to the external application or a destination defined in the work order, such that an external user can automatically control access and hence use the data without accessing the underlying raw data because the level of data access is automatically negotiated and produced between the components involved (data source, gateway component) while taking into account requirements and rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Marcus FEHLING, Frank KONOPKA, Tobias LAMM, Burkhard TOLKS, Peter WELP
  • Patent number: 10109025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a technical apparatus in which a time profile (E(t)) for a power requirement (E) for the technical apparatus is ascertained over at least one period and an operating state of the technical apparatus is matched to the ascertained power requirement (E) on the basis of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Hassel, Frank Konopka
  • Patent number: 10044194
    Abstract: Method for anticipatory regulation of energy flows in an electrical supply grid of an automation installation, which includes a number of connecting devices that are connected to the electrical supply grid, wherein the connecting devices exchange information with respect to their energy requirements or their energy supply among one another and the connecting devices exchange energy among one another based on the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rene Graf, Frank Konopka
  • Publication number: 20140180492
    Abstract: Method for anticipatory regulation of energy flows in an electrical supply grid of an automation installation, which includes a number of connecting devices that are connected to the electrical supply grid, wherein the connecting devices exchange information with respect to their energy requirements or their energy supply among one another and the connecting devices exchange energy among one another based on the information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Rene Graf, Frank Konopka
  • Publication number: 20140114488
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a technical apparatus in which a time profile (E(t)) for a power requirement (E) for the technical apparatus is ascertained over at least one period and an operating state of the technical apparatus is matched to the ascertained power requirement (E) on the basis of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventors: Jörg Hassel, Frank Konopka