Patents by Inventor Mark K. Carmou

Mark K. Carmou 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).

  • Validation of configuration settings in an industrial process
    Patent number: 7725200
    Abstract: An automation control system can be efficiently developed and maintained as a hierarchical arrangement of configured components that pass process control parameters received from a control component and return reports back to the control component. In particular, control components compare a current configuration to a validated, saved configuration in order to report a configuration status as to whether a process can be conducted as validated. Yet, changes to the configuration of the automation control system that do not affect a validated portion do not preclude continued validated processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale Edward Reed, Mark K. Carmou, N. Andrew Weatherhead