Patents by Inventor Mark Hammer

Mark Hammer 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).

  • Publication number: 20230129503
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: David Emerson, Ichiro Wake, Patrick Clay, Vien Nguyen, Hidenori Sawahara, Mark Hammer
  • Publication number: 20230053594
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Hidenori SAWAHARA, Ichiro WAKE, Patrick CLAY, Vien NGUYEN, Dave EMERSON, Mark HAMMER
  • Patent number: 10466687
    Abstract: A method controls a folding box machine having a plurality of machining stations and a plurality of control devices for controlling the quality of folding boxes. Each control device controls different quality features of each folding box, and each control device transmits the result of the control to a control unit. Target values are stored in the control unit in order to classify the control results into results which meet the quality standard and results which do not meet the quality standard, and a folding box is discharged depending on an evaluation. The method advantageously reduces waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Masterwork Group Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Diehr, Mark Hammer, Frank Matthias Schmid
  • Publication number: 20170293291
    Abstract: A method controls a folding box machine having a plurality of machining stations and a plurality of control devices for controlling the quality of folding boxes. Each control device controls different quality features of each folding box, and each control device transmits the result of the control to a control unit. Target values are stored in the control unit in order to classify the control results into results which meet the quality standard and results which do not meet the quality standard, and a folding box is discharged depending on an evaluation. The method advantageously reduces waste.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: WOLFGANG DIEHR, MARK HAMMER, FRANK MATTHIAS SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20100285451
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for detecting the sub-cellular localization of a molecule are provided. Aspects of the invention include detecting translocation of a cell-surface receptor to a sub-cellular compartment, e.g., the endosome, using a reduced affinity enzyme complementation reporter system. Also provided are systems and kits for use in practicing embodiments of the methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Inventors: Helen M. Blau, Mark Hammer, Tom Wehrman
  • Publication number: 20060213649
    Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly that addresses the thermal cycling problem to increase the durability of the heat exchanger core by fabricating at least the tube next adjacent to each of the reinforcing members with a cross section adjacent each of the headers including a radius having a partial maximum tube strain energy density and fabricating each of the reinforcing members with a connection section adjacent each of the headers having a reinforcement with a partial maximum strain energy density greater than the partial maximum strain energy density of the adjacent tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Karl Kroetsch, Brian Hartman, Mark Hammer
  • Patent number: 5932806
    Abstract: A contaminant detection system includes a transmitter for transmitting a guided wave through the skin at particular resonances, wherein each resonance point utilized will have propagation characteristics sensitive to a condition of interest. A contaminant may then be classified by transmitting several resonances and then carrying out appropriate feature extraction and pattern recognition techniques utilizing a host processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: The B.F. Goodrich Company
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Rose, Aleksander Boleslaw Pilarski, deceased, Jeffrey Mark Hammer, Michael Todd Peterson, Philip Otto Readio