Patents by Inventor Peter G. Martin
Peter G. Martin 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).
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Patent number: 11829114Abstract: Systems and methods of a Hierarchical Smart Asset Control Application development and Integrated Smart Asset Control System optimization are disclosed. In various embodiments, the system may develop a Hierarchical Asset Control Application and corresponding control hardware requirements. This can be used to create an Integrated Smart Asset Control System in order execute various processes for a set of equipment elements. The smart assets associated with the system may utilize intelligent agents to balance operational constraints and operational objects in order to determine real-time optimized operational parameters for a process and implement the appropriate controls to facilitate achieving the improved operational objectives.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA, INC.Inventors: Peter G Martin, Donald C Clark, Richard L Linscott
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Patent number: 10943195Abstract: A system for improving production of a process control system comprises a processor, sensors connected to one or more assets in the process control system, human-machine interfaces, and a storage memory storing instructions for execution on the processor. The system receives process data via the sensors and determines an input cost of the one or more assets and an output value of the one or more assets. The system provides a net production value of the one or more assets based on the determined input cost and output value. The system stores the input cost, output value, and net production value on a storage memory and provides the input cost, output value, and net production value along with critical asset performance information of asset value, asset performance and opportunity costs for each asset and asset set in the operation to a user via the human-machine interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Trevor Cusworth
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Patent number: 10732597Abstract: Systems and methods of a Hierarchical Smart Asset Control Application development and Integrated Smart Asset Control System optimization are disclosed. In various embodiments, the system may develop a Hierarchical Asset Control Application and corresponding control hardware requirements. This can be used to create an Integrated Smart Asset Control System in order execute various processes for a set of equipment elements. The smart assets associated with the system may utilize intelligent agents to balance operational constraints and operational objects in order to determine real-time optimized operational parameters for a process and implement the appropriate controls to facilitate achieving the improved operational objectives.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.Inventors: Richard L Linscott, Peter G Martin, Donald C Clark
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Publication number: 20180307192Abstract: Systems and methods of a Hierarchical Smart Asset Control Application development and Integrated Smart Asset Control System optimization are disclosed. In various embodiments, the system may develop a Hierarchical Asset Control Application and corresponding control hardware requirements. This can be used to create an Integrated Smart Asset Control System in order execute various processes for a set of equipment elements. The smart assets associated with the system may utilize intelligent agents to balance operational constraints and operational objects in order to determine real-time optimized operational parameters for a process and implement the appropriate controls to facilitate achieving the improved operational objectives.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: October 25, 2018Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA, INC.Inventors: Richard L LINSCOTT, Peter G MARTIN, Donald C CLARK
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Publication number: 20180299849Abstract: Systems and methods of a Hierarchical Smart Asset Control Application development and Integrated Smart Asset Control System optimization are disclosed. In various embodiments, the system may develop a Hierarchical Asset Control Application and corresponding control hardware requirements. This can be used to create an Integrated Smart Asset Control System in order execute various processes for a set of equipment elements. The smart assets associated with the system may utilize intelligent agents to balance operational constraints and operational objects in order to determine real-time optimized operational parameters for a process and implement the appropriate controls to facilitate achieving the improved operational objectives.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2016Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS USA, INC.Inventors: Peter G MARTIN, Donald C CLARK, Richard L LINSCOTT
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Publication number: 20160275426Abstract: A system for improving production of a process control system comprises a processor, sensors connected to one or more assets in the process control system, human-machine interfaces, and a storage memory storing instructions for execution on the processor. The system receives process data via the sensors and determines an input cost of the one or more assets and an output value of the one or more assets. The system provides a net production value of the one or more assets based on the determined input cost and output value. The system stores the input cost, output value, and net production value on a storage memory and provides the input cost, output value, and net production value along with critical asset performance information of asset value, asset performance and opportunity costs for each asset and asset set in the operation to a user via the human-machine interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Trevor Cusworth
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Patent number: 9311603Abstract: A system and method assesses and manages risk of an operation of a user. A rules engine of computer executable instructions stored in the storage device determines at least one of a safety risk measurement based on key performance indicators, an operational safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the operational safety risk measurement information stored in a storage device and/or a conditional safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the conditional safety risk measurement information stored in the storage device. A processor connected to the storage device executes the rules engine. An output interface connected to the processor indicates the determined safety risk for the operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Steve Elliott, Ajay Mishra
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Publication number: 20150154496Abstract: A system and method assesses and manages risk of an operation of a user. A rules engine of computer executable instructions stored in the storage device determines at least one of a safety risk measurement based on key performance indicators, an operational safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the operational safety risk measurement information stored in a storage device and/or a conditional safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the conditional safety risk measurement information stored in the storage device. A processor connected to the storage device executes the rules engine. An output interface connected to the processor indicates the determined safety risk for the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2015Publication date: June 4, 2015Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Steve Elliott, Ajay Mishra
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Patent number: 9031892Abstract: A system and method assesses and manages risk of an operation of a user. A rules engine of computer executable instructions stored in the storage device determines at least one of a safety risk measurement based on key performance indicators, an operational safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the operational safety risk measurement information stored in a storage device and/or a conditional safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the conditional safety risk measurement information stored in the storage device. A processor connected to the storage device executes the rules engine. An output interface connected to the processor indicates the determined safety risk for the operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2012Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Steve Elliott, Ajay Mishra
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Publication number: 20130282641Abstract: A system and method assesses and manages risk of an operation of a user. A rules engine of computer executable instructions stored in the storage device determines at least one of a safety risk measurement based on key performance indicators, an operational safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the operational safety risk measurement information stored in a storage device and/or a conditional safety risk measurement for the operation as a function of the conditional safety risk measurement information stored in the storage device. A processor connected to the storage device executes the rules engine. An output interface connected to the processor indicates the determined safety risk for the operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2012Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Steve Elliott, Ajay Mishra
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Patent number: 8156017Abstract: An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized to sense, in real time, the current state of the processes and process equipment used in a manufacturing plant. Sub-plant accounting modules utilize the sensed process data to calculate a plurality of sub-plant accounting measures, which are stored in one or more real time plant historian. The accounting measures are typically converted to a suitable format and subsequently stored in a production model accounting database where they are accessible to an accounting module.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2010Date of Patent: April 10, 2012Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Janet Lee Casler
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Publication number: 20100153245Abstract: An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized to sense, in real time, the current state of the processes and process equipment used in a manufacturing plant. Sub-plant accounting modules utilize the sensed process data to calculate a plurality of sub-plant accounting measures, which are stored in one or more real time plant historian. The accounting measures are typically converted to a suitable format and subsequently stored in a production model accounting database where they are accessible to an accounting module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2010Publication date: June 17, 2010Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Janet Lee
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Patent number: 7685029Abstract: An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized to sense, in real time, the current state of the processes and process equipment used in a manufacturing plant. Sub-plant accounting modules utilize the sensed process data to calculate a plurality of sub-plant accounting measures, which are stored in one or more real time plant historian. The accounting measures are typically converted to a suitable format and subsequently stored in a production model accounting database where they are accessible to an accounting module.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2002Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: Invensys Systems Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Janet Lee Casler
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Publication number: 20030144932Abstract: An accounting method and system is disclosed that provides for real time financial accounting of plant performance at a sub-plant level. A multiplicity of process variable transmitters is utilized to sense, in real time, the current state of the processes and process equipment used in a manufacturing plant. Sub-plant accounting modules utilize the sensed process data to calculate a plurality of sub-plant accounting measures, which are stored in one or more real time plant historian. The accounting measures are typically converted to a suitable format and subsequently stored in a production model accounting database where they are accessible to an accounting module.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Inventors: Peter G. Martin, Janet Lee Casler
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Patent number: 5134574Abstract: Processing plant control apparatus provides real-time indications of performance of plant operations with respect to curent state of process means. The real-time indications enable operations personnel to timely adjust process means to improve current performance of plant operations. Sensors coupled to the process means provide data input to the computer means of control apparatus. The computer means performs programmed computations on the input data to provide quantitative information of current performance of plant operations. The control apparatus provides the computer information in a graphical form displayed on video displays. Video displays of the computed information over time are also provided. The control apparatus also stores the computed information in a relational database which enables access to the information for other applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 1990Date of Patent: July 28, 1992Assignee: The Foxboro CompanyInventors: Malcolm C. Beaverstock, Peter G. Martin
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Patent number: 5055268Abstract: An air-borne chemical sensor system includes a motor and impeller to draw an air sample into a housing containing a sensor which will provide a signal for display related to the amount of a particular air-borne chemical in a given air sample. The system is controllable by different duration activation of a single activating switch which can further control a secondary function, such as a flashlight.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1990Date of Patent: October 8, 1991Assignee: Easterm Electronics Manufacturing Corp.Inventor: Peter G. Martin
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Patent number: 4715386Abstract: The invention contemplates computer-aided analysis of recorded electronystagmograph data for a subject who is suspected of drug ingestion. The reference base for the analysis is predetermined by first entering into computer storage digital data that are characteristic of each of a selected plurality of component features of time-varying fluctuations in electronystamograph waveforms for each of a plurality of different ingested drugs, wherein the selected component features exist within a standardized set of at-rest conditions of electronystagmograph measurements. The plurality of component features is selected such that each of the drugs is characteristically identifiable by the presence of its singular combination of said component features.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1986Date of Patent: December 29, 1987Assignee: National Patent Analytical Systems, Inc.Inventor: Peter G. Martin
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Patent number: 4125871Abstract: A portable data entry device wholly contained within a small housing and for the manual entry of numerical and code data which can be conveyed to a remote data processor upon command. The device includes an electronic memory capable of storing a plurality of multiple character records and includes manually operable controls for sequencing through the memory for review and updating of previously entered data. A connector is provided on the housing by which the device can be directly connected to a data system for the readout of the stored data. The device is self powered and contains circuitry operative to conserve available energizing power.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1977Date of Patent: November 14, 1978Assignee: Arthur D. Little, Inc.Inventor: Peter G. Martin
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Patent number: 4090247Abstract: A portable data entry device wholly contained within a small housing and for the manual entry of numerical and code data which can be conveyed to a remote data processor upon command. The device includes an electronic memory capable of storing a plurality of multiple character records and includes manually operable controls for sequencing through the memory for review and updating of previously entered data. A connector is provided on the housing by which the device can be directly connected to a data system for the readout of the stored data. The device is self powered and contains circuitry operative to conserve available energizing power.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1975Date of Patent: May 16, 1978Assignee: Arthur D. Little, Inc.Inventor: Peter G. Martin
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Patent number: 4051415Abstract: A motor control system for use in maintaining substantially constant linear speed of a web moving between a supply and a takeup reel such as in a reel driven magnetic tape transport. The rotational periods of the reels are measured to provide representative signals which are summed and compared with a reference to yield an error signal for control of takeup reel motor driving voltage such that the error voltage tends to become zero, resulting in substantially constant linear web speed. In alternative embodiment, the period representative signals are each non-linearly processed prior to summing to enhance the accuracy of web speed control. In further embodiment, the rotational frequencies of the web reels are measured to provide representative signals which are each non-linearly processed and then summed and from which summed signal is derived a resulting error voltage for web speed control.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1975Date of Patent: September 27, 1977Assignee: Braemar Computer Devices, Inc.Inventor: Peter G. Martin