Patents by Inventor Nancy L. Quist

Nancy L. Quist 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).

  • Distributed diagnostic system
    Patent number: 6199018
    Abstract: A distributed diagnostic system in which a plurality of local monitoring devices collect local information concerning various machines and process that information, according to redefined diagnostic parameters, for diagnostic purposes. The local information collected by the plurality of local monitoring devices is provided to a global processor that globally processes the collected information to provide updated diagnostic parameters to the local monitoring devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Emerson Electric Co.
    Inventors: Nancy L. Quist, Austin H. Bonnett, James P. Lynch, Joseph A. Kline, Sr., Michael I. Henderson, Ronald Ivar Hannula, Jr., Thomas W. Grudkowski, Vojislav Divljakovic, George William Buckley, Robert P. Bauer, Israel E. Alguindigue