Patents by Inventor Marion A. Keyes
Marion A. Keyes 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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Patent number: 8620779Abstract: A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data, such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or information associated with the actual operation of the process plant at the time the plant is operating. The economic models can be used to provide financial statistics such as profitability, cost of manufactured product, etc. in real time based on the actual current operating state of the process and the business data associated with the finished product, raw materials, etc. These financial statistics can be used to drive alarms and alerts within the process network and be used as inputs to process plant optimizers, etc. to provide for better or more optimal control of the process and to provide a better understanding of the conditions which lead to maximum profitability of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Mark J. Nixon, Terrence Lynn Blevins
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Patent number: 8538732Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, Mark J. Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence L. Belvins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 8417595Abstract: A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or information associated with the actual operation of the process plant at the time the plant is operating. The economic models can be used to provide financial statistics such as profitability, cost of manufactured product, etc. in real time based on the actual current operating state of the process and the business data associated with the finished product, raw materials, etc. These financial statistics can be used to drive alarms and alerts within the process network and be used as inputs to process plant optimizers, etc. to provide for better or more optimal control of the process and to provide a better understanding of the conditions which lead to maximum profitability of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, Mark J. Nixon, Terrence Lynn Blevins
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Publication number: 20110134973Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2010Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, Mark J. Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence Lynn Blevins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 7848906Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2008Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor Duncan Schleiss, Mark J. Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence L. Blevins, Ram Ramachandran
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Publication number: 20100293019Abstract: A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or information associated with the actual operation of the process plant at the time the plant is operating. The economic models can be used to provide financial statistics such as profitability, cost of manufactured product, etc. in real time based on the actual current operating state of the process and the business data associated with the finished product, raw materials, etc. These financial statistics can be used to drive alarms and alerts within the process network and be used as inputs to process plant optimizers, etc. to provide for better or more optimal control of the process and to provide a better understanding of the conditions which lead to maximum profitability of the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 18, 2010Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, Mark Nixon, Terrence Blevins
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Publication number: 20100286798Abstract: A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data, such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or information associated with the actual operation of the process plant at the time the plant is operating. The economic models can be used to provide financial statistics such as profitability, cost of manufactured product, etc. in real time based on the actual current operating state of the process and the business data associated with the finished product, raw materials, etc. These financial statistics can be used to drive alarms and alerts within the process network and be used as inputs to process plant optimizers, etc. to provide for better or more optimal control of the process and to provide a better understanding of the conditions which lead to maximum profitability of the plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, Mark Nixon, Terrence Blevins
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Patent number: 7720727Abstract: A process control system includes economic models disposed in communication with process control modules, as well as with sources of economic data, such as cost, throughput and profit data, and uses the economic models to determine useful economic parameters or information associated with the actual operation of the process plant at the time the plant is operating. The economic models can be used to provide financial statistics such as profitability, cost of manufactured product, etc. in real time based on the actual current operating state of the process and the business data associated with the finished product, raw materials, etc. These financial statistics can be used to drive alarms and alerts within the process network and be used as inputs to process plant optimizers, etc. to provide for better or more optimal control of the process and to provide a better understanding of the conditions which lead to maximum profitability of the plant.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, Mark Nixon, Terrence Blevins
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Patent number: 7568000Abstract: A data processing system and method for use with a process control system enables a plurality of process plants associated with different business entities to share a remotely situated data processing facility. The data processing facility includes a cluster of redundant servers that are communicatively coupled via a local network. Each of the redundant servers is adapted to acquire and process data received from the plurality of process plants. The data processing facility also includes a plurality of redundant data historians that are communicatively coupled to each other and to the cluster of redundant servers for storage of process data and analysis results. Each of the plurality of process plants includes internet-enabled field devices, internet-enabled field device interfaces, and/or internet-enabled data concentration nodes that send information to and receive information from the data processing facility via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: July 28, 2009Assignee: Rosemount AnalyticalInventors: Marion A. Keyes, Rahul Deshmukh, Gary G. Cacciatore, Stephen J. Staphanos, James Patrick Kennedy
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Patent number: 7527717Abstract: Sulfur resistant sensors and a process analytic system employing such sensors are provided. The sensors generally include a treatment or material that is adapted to increase the resistance of certain portions of the sensors to exposure to sulfur. In one aspect, an improved sulfur-resistant process analytic system includes a probe with one or more sulfur-resistant sensors therein coupled to a controller, a thermal control module, and a source of blowback gas.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Rosemount Analytical, Inc.Inventors: Pavel Shuk, Ramasamy Manoharan, Tom Blanar, Ray Molnar, Marion Keyes
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Publication number: 20090062931Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2008Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, Mark J. Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence L. Belvins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 7447612Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2006Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, Ron Eddie, Mark Nixon, Terrence L. Blevins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 7206646Abstract: A process control system uses a data collection and distribution system and an asset utilization suite to collect data or information pertaining to the assets of a process plant from various sources or functional areas of the plant including, for example, the process control functional areas, the maintenance functional areas and the process performance monitoring functional areas. This data and information is manipulated in a coordinated manner by the data collection and distribution system and is redistributed to other applications where this it is used to perform overall better or more optimal control, maintenance and business activities. Information or data may be collected by maintenance functions pertaining to the health, variability, performance or utilization of a device, loop, unit, area, etc. and this information may then be sent to and displayed to a process operator or maintenance person to inform that person of a current or future problem.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2001Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Mark J. Nixon, Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, John A. Gudaz, Terrence L. Blevins
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Publication number: 20070021140Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to power a device using wirelessly transmitted power are disclosed. Initially, a wireless base unit obtains a request for wireless power. The wireless base unit then determines a power requirement associated with a wireless field unit and compares the power requirement to a remaining power capacity of the wireless base unit. The wireless base unit then transmits power wirelessly to the wireless field unit based on the comparison of the power requirement to the remaining power capacity. The wirelessly transmitted power is associated with powering a field device operatively coupled to the wireless field unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2005Publication date: January 25, 2007Inventors: Marion Keyes, Robert Yeager
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Patent number: 7103426Abstract: A control system includes a measurement device capable of gathering high frequency process parameter data, a modeling routine which uses the high frequency parameter data to develop a model of the high frequency noise and a compensation routine that employs the developed model to adjust a control signal to thereby compensate for the high frequency noise present within the process parameter. The measurement device may measure a process variable at a relatively high frequency and send a subset of the measured data (e.g., the low frequency data) to a standard controller that generates a control signal to control the measured process parameter in any known manner. The modeling routine analyzes the high frequency data and develops a mathematical model of the high frequency noise within the process variable.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2003Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Rosemount Analytical Inc.Inventor: Marion A. Keyes
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Publication number: 20060142875Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Marion Keyes, Trevor Schleiss, Mark Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence Belvins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 7035773Abstract: An appendable system includes a plurality of appendable devices that are adapted to interoperate with each other and/or a workstation via a communication network to monitor and/or control a process. Each of the appendable devices can communicate with one or more sensors and/or control outputs and includes a housing that facilitates mounting of the appendable device to a surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc.Inventors: Marion A. Keyes, IV, Trevor D. Schleiss, Mark J. Nixon, Ron Eddie, Terrence L. Belvins, Ram Ramachandran
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Patent number: 6983640Abstract: A system for generating electricity includes a generator and an interface. The generator is coupled to the interface and provides data to the interface regarding electricity generation. The interface is coupled to a control node for monitoring and controlling the generator. The control node may be coupled to the generator through a medium such as the internet. In some aspects of the invention, a continuous emissions monitoring system is provided for fossil-fuel based generators to enhance operation and reduce emissions of such generators.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: Rosemount Analytical Inc.Inventors: Stephen T. Staphanos, Marion A. Keyes, Gary G. Cacciatore
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Publication number: 20050188745Abstract: A system for generating electricity includes a generator and an interface. The generator is coupled to the interface and provides data to the interface regarding electricity generation. The interface is coupled to a control node for monitoring and controlling the generator. The control node may be coupled to the generator through a medium such as the internet. In some aspects of the invention, a continuous emissions monitoring system is provided for fossil-fuel based generators to enhance operation and reduce emissions of such generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2003Publication date: September 1, 2005Applicant: Rosemount Analytical Inc.Inventors: Stephen Staphanos, Marion Keyes, Gary Cacciatore
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Patent number: 6912889Abstract: A system for generating electricity includes a generator and an interface. The generator is coupled to the interface and provides data to the interface regarding electricity generation. The interface is coupled to a control node for monitoring and controlling the generator. The control node may be coupled to the generator through a medium such as the internet. In some aspects of the invention, a continuous emissions monitoring system is provided for fossil-fuel based generators to enhance operation and reduce emissions of such generators.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2002Date of Patent: July 5, 2005Assignee: Rosemount Analytical Inc.Inventors: Stephen T. Staphanos, Marion A. Keyes, Gary G. Cacciatore