Patents by Inventor Herschel Odis Koska

Herschel Odis Koska 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).

  • Methods and module class objects to configure absent equipment in process plants
    Patent number: 7848829
    Abstract: Methods and module class objects to configure equipment absences in process plants are disclosed. An example disclosed method of creating a configuration entity for use in configuring a process plant comprises creating a class object representative of a process entity within the process plant that includes a first data structure representative of one or more process elements that make up the process entity; and creating a module object based on the class object that includes a second data structure, the second data structure to include a configurable first indication to represent whether a specific process element that conforms to a first one of the one or more process elements that make up the process entity is absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark John Nixon, Larry Oscar Jundt, John Michael Lucas, Dennis Stevenson, Nancy Stevenson, legal representative, Julian Kevin Naidoo, Herschel Odis Koska, II
  • METHODS AND MODULE CLASS OBJECTS TO CONFIGURE ABSENT EQUIPMENT IN PROCESS PLANTS
    Publication number: 20080188960
    Abstract: Methods and module class objects to configure equipment absences in process plants are disclosed. An example disclosed method of creating a configuration entity for use in configuring a process plant comprises creating a class object representative of a process entity within the process plant that includes a first data structure representative of one or more process elements that make up the process entity; and creating a module object based on the class object that includes a second data structure, the second data structure to include a configurable first indication to represent whether a specific process element that conforms to a first one of the one or more process elements that make up the process entity is absent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Inventors: Mark John Nixon, Larry Oscar Jundt, John Michael Lucas, Dennis Stevenson, Nancy Stevenson, Julian Kevin Naidoo, Herschel Odis Koska