Patents by Inventor Mitchell Packer

Mitchell Packer 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).

  • Parallelization of PLC programs for operation in multi-processor environments
    Patent number: 8799880
    Abstract: A method of identifying and extracting functional parallelism from a PLC program has been developed that results in the ability of the extracted program fragments to be executed in parallel across a plurality of separate resources, and a compiler configured to perform the functional parallelism (i.e., identification and extraction processes) and perform the scheduling of the separate fragments within a given set of resources. The inventive functional parallelism creates a larger number of separable elements than was possible with prior dataflow analysis methodologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Arquimedes Martinez Canedo, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Mitchell Packer, Richard Freitag