Patents by Inventor Judith S. Hirsch

Judith S. Hirsch 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).

  • Method and apparatus for generating a sequence of steps for use by a factory
    Patent number: 6128542
    Abstract: The present invention allows the produce or process engineering of a factory to define a sequence of steps and to associate the steps to various levels defined by the object oriented database OODB. This allows the steps to be variable name independent and allow increased flexibility in reusability of the step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: CMSI Acquisition Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Kristoff, David P. Nunn, Christopher Winemiller, Dennis L. Draheim, John McCollum, Judith S. Hirsch, John H. McGehee, Robert J. White, Jr.
  • Computer-aided manufacturing support method and system for specifying relationships and dependencies between process type components
    Patent number: 5586039
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system, for use with a computer integrated management system, to classify and serve as the data and information repository for a process or product specification and to classify groups of process resources. The Process Type method provides information to describe the outcome of a process. The organization describing a Process Type includes three basic components. The first component is an action. The action component describes what is to be done by the process. The second component is material. The material component describes the element upon which or with which the action described by the action component is performed. The third component is technology. The technology component describes the resource which performs the action described by the action component with or upon the material described by the material component. The resulting Process Type is then used to control a process or the generation of a product to achieve a desired result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Judith S. Hirsch, Ulrich H. Wild
  • Apparatus and method for model based process control
    Patent number: 5402367
    Abstract: The present invention configures a control strategy and a process model to calculate a setting of a machine. The present invention adjusts the process model in accordance with an analysis of the setting to control the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 28, 1995
    Assignee: Texas Instruments, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael F. Sullivan, Judith S. Hirsch, Stephanie W. Butler, Nicholas J. Tovell, Jerry A. Stefani, Purnendu K. Mozumder, Ulrich H. Wild, Chun-Jen J. Wang, Robert A. Hartzell