Patents by Inventor Michael Zanzinger

Michael Zanzinger 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 for supporting a safety-oriented system
    Patent number: 8620873
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to supporting a safety-oriented system, with the safety-oriented system including safety-critical software components and non-safety-critical software components. In this method, a possibility of a safety-critical software component and a non-safety-critical software component influencing each other is identified and a set of technical measures for preventing the possibility of influencing is defined. In this way, an absence of feedback from non-safety-critical software components to safety-critical software components is both verified and also ensured by at least one embodiment of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Efthimios Liakos, Roland Porsch, Stefan Rothbauer, Martin Rothfelder, Michael Zanzinger, Hartmut Zeilmann
  • METHOD FOR SUPPORTING A SAFETY-ORIENTED SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20100313075
    Abstract: At least one embodiment of the present invention relates to supporting a safety-oriented system, with the safety-oriented system including safety-critical software components and non-safety-critical software components. In this method, a possibility of a safety-critical software component and a non-safety-critical software component influencing each other is identified and a set of technical measures for preventing the possibility of influencing is defined. In this way, an absence of feedback from non-safety-critical software components to safety-critical software components is both verified and also ensured by at least one embodiment of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2008
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Inventors: Efthimios Liakos, Roland Porsch, Stefan Rothbauer, Martin Rothfelder, Michael Zanzinger, Hartmut Zeilmann