Patents by Inventor George van der Sijpt

George van der Sijpt 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).

  • Integrated plant environment utilizing an advanced program-to-program server enabling communications between programs running in different computing environments
    Patent number: 5802293
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an integrated plant environment which includes a business computing environment, such as an IBM environment, to run business programs that manage business aspects of the plant, a second, different computing environment, such as a DEC environment, configured to run manufacturing programs that control production of products, a gateway configured to allow communication between the business programs and the manufacturing programs, and an advanced program-to-program server which enables communication between the two different computing environments. The present invention also includes a method for interfacing programs in a first computing environment with programs in a second computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventor: George van der Sijpt