Patents by Inventor Philip John Kaufman

Philip John Kaufman 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).

  • Publication number: 20100274377
    Abstract: An industrial control system is provided. The system includes tagged data that is collected from a plurality of sustainability factor-associated data sources across an industrial automation environment, where the tagged data is associated with a portion of a process that is attributed to the sustainability factor data sources. A manufacturing model is associated with the tagged data, where the manufacturing model is employed to enhance the efficiencies of the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker, Steven Anthony Lombardi
  • Publication number: 20100274602
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate analysis, processing, or reporting in connection with energy consumption data and/or emissions or sustainability factors associated with an automation process. In particular, the architecture can obtain process-level or machine- or device-level energy consumption data collected during execution of an automation process. The data can be analyzed or processed, with general or application-specific results output to a specified recipient and/or formatted (e.g., parsed, filtered, or transformed) according to a general or application-specific scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker
  • Publication number: 20100274611
    Abstract: Discrete resource tracking systems (and corresponding methodologies) that collect, tag and store resource consumption and usage values associated with industrial environment processes are provided. The specification can track water, air, gas, electricity, or steam consumption and usage view of a discrete (or batch) processes. Emissions and/or effluents associated with processes and sub-processes can also be collected, tagged and stored as desired. These stored resource consumption and usage and/or emissions and/or effluents data elements can be used for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, simulation, planning, forecasting, valuating, optimizing, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker
  • Publication number: 20100274810
    Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcia Elaine Walker, Philip John Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20100274629
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate sustainability monitoring and indicia thereof for a product over the course of the entire lifecycle of the product. In particular, the architecture can acquire a status update associated with a state of the product. Based upon the state, the architecture can determine an impact of that state to a sustainability score associated with the product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Marcia Elaine Walker, Philip John Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20100275147
    Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating industrial energy demand management and services. A demand management and services component obtains one or more utilization data elements via a communication network. The utilization data elements are instances of discrete data pertaining to sustainability, energy consumption, or emissions by manufacturing and/or facility elements. The demand management and services component analyzes the utilization data elements, and based on the analysis generates a set of user interfaces and/or provides one or more optimizations to improve sustainability and/or energy utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker
  • Publication number: 20100274612
    Abstract: An industrial control system is provided. The system includes a processor to analyze one or more sustainability factors and a scoring component to assign a weight to the sustainability factors. An optimizer automatically adjusts a production process in view of the sustainability factors, the weight, and at least one of a recycling requirement, a carbon footprint, a procurement process, a shipping process, or a regulatory requirement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Marcia Elaine Walker, Philip John Kaufman
  • Patent number: 7676292
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate construction of automation applications for utilization in an industrial automation environment. A design template component can provide a design template to yield a modular, hierarchical framework for an application. Further, a design pattern table can include a library of design patterns, where the design patterns can be organized according to respective classifications. Moreover, a design pattern component can integrate a selected design pattern from the design pattern table with the design template to construct the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: N. Andrew Weatherhead, Philip John Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20080097630
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate constructing automation applications for utilization in an industrial automation environment. A design template component can provide a design template to yield a modular, hierarchical framework for an application. Further, a design pattern table can include a library of design patterns, where the design patterns can be organized according to respective classifications. Moreover, a design pattern component can integrate a selected design pattern from the design pattern table with the design template to construct the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Applicant: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: N. Andrew Weatherhead, Philip John Kaufman