Patents by Inventor Markku K. V{umlaut over (aa)}täinen

Markku K. V{umlaut over (aa)}täinen 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).

  • System and method for disseminating functional blocks to an on-line redundant controller
    Patent number: 6415418
    Abstract: A system for, and method of, disseminating a functional block to a redundant controller for a real-time process control system and a real-time process control system incorporating the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a dynamically linkable library object associable with the functional block and (2) a shared memory, associated with at least two nodes of the redundant controller, that receives the dynamically linkable library object and the functional block and provides concurrent access thereto by both the at least two nodes to ensure consistent memory images therefore without requiring one of the at least two nodes to be taken off-line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. McLaughlin, Norman R. Swanson, Brian R. Reynolds, Markku K. V{umlaut over (aa)}täinen, Pekka M. Salpakari