Patents by Inventor Nicholas Stay

Nicholas Stay 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 of connection management during synchronization of high availability industrial control systems
    Patent number: 11327472
    Abstract: An industrial controller executes a control program held in non-transitory medium to: (a) open connections for the communication of data on the industrial control network, the connection subject to a timeout; (b) operate in a synchronized state with the second industrial controller to execute a same control program to communicate same control data; (c) operate in an unsynchronized state providing no-operation data to the industrial control network, the no-operation data preventing timeout of the open connections on which it is communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Stay, Kyle Neet
  • System And Method Of Connection Management During Synchronization Of High Availability Industrial Control Systems
    Publication number: 20210223762
    Abstract: An industrial controller executes a control program held in non-transitory medium to: (a) open connections for the communication of data on the industrial control network, the connection subject to a timeout; (b) operate in a synchronized state with the second industrial controller to execute a same control program to communicate same control data; (c) operate in an unsynchronized state providing no-operation data to the industrial control network, the no-operation data preventing timeout of the open connections on which it is communicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Stay, Kyle Neet