Patents by Inventor Ichiro WAKE
Ichiro WAKE 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).
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Publication number: 20260134162Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2026Publication date: May 14, 2026Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Patent number: 12625829Abstract: A controller includes a receiver that receives specification of identification information representing a number that identifies a relay device that is connected to a plurality of instruments or a number that identifies a cable that connects the relay device and the controller; a search unit that searches an instrumentation database that records the identification information and input-output information on the instruments that are connected to the relay device in association with each other for input-output information corresponding to the specified identification information; and a setting unit that sets the searched input-output information in an input-output module of the controller.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2024Date of Patent: May 12, 2026Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Ichiro Wake
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Patent number: 12524581Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 13, 2026Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Patent number: 12481799Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Patent number: 12481798Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2022Date of Patent: November 25, 2025Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Publication number: 20250217525Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Publication number: 20250217526Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Patent number: 12323339Abstract: Implementations are described herein for automatic deployment of function block application programs (FBAPs) across process automation nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, one or more constraints associated with execution of a FBAP may be identified. Based on the one or more constraints, a process automation system that includes a plurality of process automation nodes may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a subset of two or more process automation nodes on which to distributively deploy the FBAP may be selected from the plurality of processing node. In response to selecting the subset, the FBAP may be distributively deployed across the two or more process automation nodes of the subset.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventors: Hidenori Sawahara, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, David Emerson, Mark Hammer
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Publication number: 20250130560Abstract: An information providing system includes a control device and a managing device. The managing device includes an acquiring unit that receives first tag information regarding a first tag set to a first component of a first controller from a first system, and receives second tag information regarding a second tag set to a second component of a second controller from a second system and a change notification unit that detects whether an effective tag has changed from the first tag to the second tag based on the first tag information and the second tag information, and that notifies the control device of a detection result. The control device includes a setting change unit that changes an access destination to the effective tag to the second controller based on the detection result.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Ichiro WAKE, Masaaki TABUCHI
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Publication number: 20250004960Abstract: A controller includes a receiver that receives specification of identification information representing a number that identifies a relay device that is connected to a plurality of instruments or a number that identifies a cable that connects the relay device and the controller; a search unit that searches an instrumentation database that records the identification information and input-output information on the instruments that are connected to the relay device in association with each other for input-output information corresponding to the specified identification information; and a setting unit that sets the searched input-output information in an input-output module of the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2024Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventor: Ichiro WAKE
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Publication number: 20230129503Abstract: Implementations herein leverage knowledge about historical process automation facilities to automate designing a new process automation facility. A first level design input may be processed to generate a first embedding that encodes design aspect(s) of the requested process automation facility with a degree of detail commensurate with a first level of a hierarchy reflected by design documents typically used to design a process automation facility. The first embedding may be used to find first level reference embeddings that encode design aspects of reference process automation facilities. Second level reference embedding(s) may be identified based on mapping(s) from the selected first level reference embedding(s). Each second level reference embedding may encode design aspect(s) of a respective reference process automation facility with a degree of detail that is commensurate with a second level of the design document hierarchy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
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Publication number: 20230053594Abstract: Implementations are described herein for automatic deployment of function block application programs (FBAPs) across process automation nodes of a process automation system. In various implementations, one or more constraints associated with execution of a FBAP may be identified. Based on the one or more constraints, a process automation system that includes a plurality of process automation nodes may be analyzed. Based on the analysis, a subset of two or more process automation nodes on which to distributively deploy the FBAP may be selected from the plurality of processing node. In response to selecting the subset, the FBAP may be distributively deployed across the two or more process automation nodes of the subset.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2021Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Hidenori SAWAHARA, Ichiro WAKE, Patrick CLAY, Vien NGUYEN, Dave EMERSON, Mark HAMMER